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 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007