Appeal No. 1997-2314
Application No. 08/349,728
Cotton et al. (Cotton) 4,630,110 Dec. 16,
1986
Feher 4,816,828 Mar. 28,
1989
Gormley 5,258,837 Nov. 2,
1993
Einbinder 5,402,167 Mar.
28, 1995
(filed May 13, 1993)
Claims 1 through 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Feher in view of Gormley, Cotton
and Einbinder.
Reference is made to the brief, the answer, and the
examiner’s first Office Action (paper number 2) for the
respective positions of the appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
The obviousness rejection of claims 1 through 6 is
reversed.
Feher discloses the use of a plurality of cameras in an
airplane surveillance system. The video recorder is in the
form of a ‘black box’ recorder (column 1, lines 2 through 14)
which is in a secure/locked housing. The examiner refers to
the controller 60 as a multiplexer (paper number 2, page 3),
but we can not find any disclosure in Feher that describes a
multiplexing function for the controller 60. Feher does not
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