The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication and is not
binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 15
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte, ROBERT B. MAHAFFEY, LAWRENCE F. WEISS, RICHARD S.
SCHWERDTFEGER and FREDERIK C. M. KJELDSEN
Appeal No. 2003-1558
Application No. 09/464,841
ON BRIEF
Before THOMAS, KRASS and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 2-9, 13 and 15.
The invention pertains to hands-free user input to a
computer system. In particular, display data is provided to a
display device dependent upon the proximity of a user’s face to a
camera.
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