Appeal No. 1996-3284
Application 08/154,864
these claims covers the elements from two embodiments [brief,
pages 19 to 20] in a single claim. However, such a composite
embodiment is neither shown in a figure nor described in the
original disclosure. The disclosure [page 5, lines 5 to 8]
only briefly mentions the two separate possible embodiments.
But, it is not disclosed how a composite embodiment composed
of the two separate possible embodiments would operate, or
what arrangement
of various elements would comprise it.
Claim 9 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102/103 over
Garcia. Garcia shows a plurality of pixels, 1, 5 and 9.
Collimating lens 23 collimates the light beam. The scanner 25
receives the collimated beam and rasterizes the viewing space
with the collimated beam as the scanner 25 reflects (or
steers) the collimated beam onto display screen 29, [column 3,
lines 40 to 46]. We must point out that one might misread
Garcia by looking at column 2, lines 37 to 41 where the term
“focused” is used to form an image on the scanner 25.
However, clearly, the collimating lens 23 is used to collimate
the beam, not "focus" it, and the collimated image is received
by the scanner 25. This is verified at column 3, lines 40 to
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