Appeal No. 97-0802
Application 08/414,112
Examiner's failure to address claim 5 does not affect this
decision.
Obviousness
Moss is directed to a holographic head-up display panel
"to allow an operator such as a pilot or driver to look at a
complex control panel on a head-up display and to see his own
inputs on that panel, as relayed from a tactile or other
sensor on the panel" (col. 1, lines 27-31). Figure 9 is
closest to Appellant's invention because it has an illuminated
transmission hologram 73 which projects a virtual image
keyboard beyond the windshield 12, instead of having an edge-
illuminated, multiple layer hologram 11 affixed to the
windshield as in figures 1 and 2. The keyboard arrangements
are shown in figures 7 and 8. A second hologram 77 in
figure 9 focusses a dot on the virtual image 71 of the
keys 61-67 and 69 and thumbwheel 68 to indicate which key is
being actuated. Moss provides the control functions via a
control panel 13 not located on the windshield.
The admitted prior art of Appellant's figure 4 shows a
typical handset of a conventional mobile telephone equipment.
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