Appeal No. 2000-1888
Application No. 08/885,984
hypercardioid pattern whereas Appellants’ group A claims require
various response patterns such as cardioid, super cardioid and
bipolar (brief, pages 9 & 10). Additionally, Appellants urge
that unlike the claimed configuration of the boot to compensate
for internal noise, Lundgren attempts to reduce unwanted sounds
coming from “all directions” outside the computer (brief, page
9).
In response, the Examiner points out that Lundgren’s
disclosed modification to the housing of the microphone actually
achieves the desired directional response (answer, page 8). The
Examiner further asserts that the resulting directional
microphone is optimized for sounds from a specific direction such
as from a user, which would inherently reduce the overall pickup
of sounds from other directions surrounding the microphone
including the internal sounds (answer, page 9).
Similar to McAteer, Lundgren relates to a directional
microphone for use in a computer. Lundgren modifies the housing
of a directional microphone having a cardioid response pattern to
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