Appeal No. 1998-0678
Application No. 08/411,299
Burgess et al. (Burgess) “Synthetic Vision - A View in the
Fog,”IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine,”
Vol 8 pp. 6-13 (1993)
Claims 1-8 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as
unpatentable over Burgess in view of Diner.
Reference is made to the brief and answer for the
respective
positions of appellants and the examiner.
OPINION
With regard to independent claims 1 and 2, the examiner
contends that since Burgess discloses a pilot viewing a runway
through a Head Mounted Display (HMD) and a second vision
system, including radar or infrared sensors, is disclosed by
Burgess as generating a second visual output to the HMD for
additional information, it would have been obvious to
“communicate a first visual image having a first visual
perspective and a first view angle to a second image having a
second visual perspective and second view angle in order to
provide additional visual information to the user not available
from either view separately” [answer-pages 4-5]. Although the
examiner reasons that Diner is not even needed for the
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