Appeal No. 1998-0678
Application No. 08/411,299
rejection, Diner is applied anyway as disclosing the generation
of a virtual image from several inputs by combining output
images to create the virtual image from any perspective in the
workplace.
The examiner has set forth a rationale which, if all
allegations are true, sets forth a prima facie of obviousness
which must be overcome by appellants either by persuasive
argument or some objective evidence of unobviousness.
Appellants’ first argument, at page 3 of the brief,
contends that the examiner did not consider how the teachings
of Diner may contribute to the teachings of Burgess. However,
one of the examiner’s contentions is that Diner is not even
needed to support Burgess under one interpretation of the
Burgess reference so appellants’ allegation that the examiner
somehow did not properly explain the combination is not
persuasive of unobviousness.
Appellants next argue that Burgess does not show two
vision systems but, rather, discloses only a single vision
system, albeit there are several alternatives. The alternative
embodiments are not suggested by Burgess as being employed
simultaneously. Moreover, appellants explain that Burgess
forms an image at the camera and presents this image to a Heads
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