Appeal No. 1998-0942
Application No. 08/324,038
Application Serial No. 07/767,178, in view of Nishizawa and
Sniff.
Assuming that this is the correct interpretation of the
rejection, that part of the rejection based on Application
Serial No. 07/767,178 must fail since that application has
been abandoned, as noted in our decision of March 28, 2000.
With regard to the part of the rejection based on claims
16-33 of Application Serial No. 08/231,570, that application
has since matured into U.S. Patent No. 6,157,353. Assuming
claims 16-33 of Application Serial No. 08/231,570 correspond,
respectively, to now patented claims 1-18, the claims in the
patent all relate to multiple visual displays including a
miniature virtual image display and a real image display where
an optical system is employed for receiving the real image and
magnifying it to produce the virtual image, whereas the
instant claims, while similar, are narrower in some respects.
In particular, the instant claims each requires that the real
image has "a luminance of less than approximately 15fL" and
that the virtual image produced from the real image has "a
dark background and shielded from ambient light reflection
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