Appeal No. 1999-2337
Application 08/655,257
28, 29, 31 and 32 are objected to for being dependent upon
rejected claims.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, appellants
disclose an apparatus and method for reproducing a three-
dimensional scene on a specialized light display which offers
full multiviewpoint capability and autostereoscopic views.
Independent claim 1 is reproduced as follow:
1. Apparatus for providing a three-dimensional image of
a three-dimensional scene, said apparatus comprising:
(a) a set of M two-dimensional views of said three-
dimensional scene;
(b) encoding means for processing said set of M two-
dimensional views to obtain a set of display-excitation
electrical-input signals; and
(c) planar display means connected for response to said
set of display-excitation electrical-input signals, whereby to
produce said three-dimensional image of said three-dimensional
scene.
The references relied on by the examiner are as follows:
Karras 4,134,104 Jan. 9, 1979
Cline et al. (Cline) 4,525,858 Jun. 25, 1985
DeMond et al (DeMond) 5,214,419 May 25, 1993
Kuga 5,592,215 Jan. 7,
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