Appeal No. 1999-0864 Page 14
Application No. 08/757,550
the limitations of "the environmental image-changing means
varies a color-tone of the environmental image according to
the detected light quantity or brightness[,]" "the varying
includes changing a color-tone of the environmental image
according to the sensed light quantity or brightness[,]” or
“the varying includes changing a color-tone of the
environmental image according to the sensed light quantity or
brightness.” Therefore, we reverse the rejection of claims 5,
26, and 33 as obvious over Yamanaka in view of Sawachika. We
proceed to claims 12-14.
B. Claims 12-14
The examiner asserts, “it would have been obvious to a
person of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention
was made to use the means of varying visibility, as taught by
Sawachika, in the apparatus of Yamanaka ....” (Examiner’s
Answer, ¶ 10.) The appellant argues, “Sawachika varies an
object (main) image but does not vary the environmental image
according to the detected light of the main image ....”
(Appeal Br. at 14.)
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