Appeal No. 1999-1055 Page 4
Application No. 08/571,342
the invention as comprising a plurality of forward-looking and rearward-looking video
cameras driven with a common time base to produce synchronized video signals for
viewing traffic and weather conditions, a horizontally oriented elongated LCD video display
device mounted above a dashboard of the vehicle and equipped with signal processing
hardware to simultaneously display a plurality of the synchronized video signals, a personal
computer connected between the video cameras and the video display device to provide
interactive control, a program inputting EE-PROM card device and a video/audio data
inputting and recording CD-ROM device connected to the personal computer and enabling
signal processing and interactive system control by the computer, a directional
microphone connected to the personal computer for inputting voice commands by an
operator of the vehicle to control the multi-media system, and a speaker located close to
the operator at ear level and connected to the personal computer to provide voice
messages and warnings output from the personal computer in response to programmed
criteria.
It is the examiner’s position that one of ordinary skill in the art would have found
each of the components of the appellant’s system individually in the three applied
references and/or in the skill of the art, and would have found it obvious to combine them in
such a manner as to render the appellant’s claimed system obvious. The appellant, on the
other hand, argues that there would have been no suggestion to combine the references in
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