Appeal No. 2001-0338
Application No. 08/932,953
power to the eyetrackers. The Examiner argues that Oyagi's
teaching of turning off the sensor would provide even more power
savings.
Thus, we find that the Examiner is not relying on Oyagi for
teachings of power savings by turning off sensors that are part
of the display system. Therefore, for this reason, one of
ordinary skill in the art would have modified Schoolman and
Tonosaki to turn off the eyetrackers. Therefore, we do not agree
with the Appellants that Oyagi would teach away from Appellants'
claimed limitation recited in claim 13.
Appellants further argue that the combination is improper
because the modification of Tonosaki suggested by the Examiner
would defeat the purpose of Tonosaki. Upon our review of
Tonosaki, we find nothing that would suggest that a controller
for turning off the eye sensors when it is determined that the
display is no longer needed would defeat the Tonosaki invention.
To the contrary, we find that the proposed combination by the
Examiner would further provide additional power savings and would
only enhance the Tonosaki invention.
In view of the foregoing, we have sustained the Examiner's
rejection of claims 5-13, 17-19 and 21-23.
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