Appeal No. 1999-2666 Page 2
Application No. 08/565,584
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a video game
apparatus which provides advice information to a user. An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading
of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced as follows:
1. A video game apparatus comprising:
a display;
game operating means operated by a player;
game computing means for computing a game in accordance
with an operation signal from said game operating means and a
predetermined game program to display a game image on said
display; and
advice data computing means which computes and outputs
advice data for the player depending on a state of the game,
wherein said advice data computing means comprises an
operational state judging section for judging an operational
state of the game operating means from an operational history
of the player, the advice data computing means automatically
generating an operation advice image of the game operating
means, and displays the operation advice image on the display
depending on the operational state.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Okada 4,752,069 Jun. 21, 1988
Eisen et al. (Eisen) 4,964,077 Oct. 16, 1990
Lanier et al. (Lanier) 5,103,498 Apr. 7, 1992
Mott et al. (Mott) 5,269,687 Dec. 14, 1993
Pierce et al. (Pierce) 5,299,810 Apr. 5, 1994
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