Appeal No. 1999-0419
Application 08/383,483
fixed site 75 in Figure 1 as well as the portable site 40 in this figure are analogous in
function and location to the fixed-type device of Citizen where the recording occurs.
Obviously, it would have been an enhancement from the artisan’s perspective to have
added the capability of remote video camera recording by radio frequency
transmissions as taught by Hurwitz to the fixed video camera embodiments shown in
the combination of Kozuki and Citizen.
On the other hand, Nakajima indicates that it was also well known in the art to
utilize wireless video cameras for recording purposes at fixed locations. The summary
of the invention at the bottom of column 1 of this reference also indicates that it was
done without the use of a connecting cable. It appears that more conventional
frequencies other than microwave frequencies were utilized according to Nakajima’s
teachings. Furthermore, like Citizen, Figures 6 and 7 of Nakajima indicate the
selectability of choosing between displaying on the television 26 broadcast television or
video camera wireless video transmissions. In the context of the combination of Kozuki
and Citizen, the ability to record at a remote location two types of broadcast video
signals would have been an obvious enhancement or, vice versa, the ability to record at
a fixed location according to the teachings and Kozuki and Citizen would have been
enhanced by the ability to select between broadcast television images, images received
by the fixed camera within the device of Citizen itself as well as the remote wireless
video camera.
We are unpersuaded of appellants’ arguments of patentability with respect to
claim 1 at pages 16-19 of the principal brief on appeal. The emphasis here is the
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