Appeal No. 1997-0811
Application No. 08/240,554
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-4 and 6-18, which
constitute all the claims remaining in the application. An
amendment after final rejection was filed on August 17, 1995
and was entered by the examiner.
The disclosed invention pertains to a spectacle type
display device. Such devices are worn on the head. The
device combines two image sources and two optical units to
focus the image sources on the left and right eyes of a
wearer.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A spectacle type display device substantially
enclosed in a housing and arranged to transmit images
generated by a pair of image sources along a double folded
optical path by way of a pair of image transfer units, each of
which includes a reflection plate and an ocular lens, and a
reflecting means positioned to receive images from the image
transfer units and to project the images on retinas of the
left and right eyes of a wearer, and which comprises:
a first support and linkage means for supporting and
linking said pair of image transfer units so as to be
laterally moveable toward and away from each other, said first
support means including a rail on which said image transfer
units are slidably supported, and
second support means for supporting said pair of
image sources for lateral movement toward and away from each
2
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