Appeal No. 2002-1849 Page 2
Application No. 09/116,710
2. Method of displaying information, comprising:
providing an output from an information system to
a holographic image generation unit; and
displaying information contained in said output in
the form of a hologram by generating holographic image
in a holographic screen;
wherein a property of a surface of the holographic
screen is that it has an intrinsic coloration which is
one of black, gray and a dark color in ambient light.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Brown et al. (Brown) 4,376,950 Mar. 15, 1983
Abileah et al. (Abileah) 5,629,784 May 13, 1997
Branca, Jr. et al. (Branca) 6,122,079 Sep. 19, 2000
(filed Feb. 28, 1997)
Claims 2-13 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
unpatentable over Brown in view of Abileah and Branca.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellants regarding the above-noted rejection,
we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 28, mailed
April 22, 2002) for the examiner's complete reasoning in support
of the rejection, and to appellants' brief (Paper No. 27, filed
February 4, 2002) for appellants' arguments thereagainst. Only
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