Appeal No. 2005-0175 Page 5
Application No. 09/241,700
free so that other tasks can be performed by that person while
operating the camera.
As stated by the examiner (answer, pages 4 and 5), one of
ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention would have
been motivated “to look to Winningstad[] ... to make Henley’s
plurality of digital cameras wearable for the same purpose of
giving these portable cameras (as small as possible) to policemen
or investigators to record objects and events surrounding the
areas being imaged.”
In so doing, one of ordinary skill in the art would have
recognized the option of attaching the individual cameras to a
garment, such as a jacket or vest, that is worn by the camera
user as taught by Winningstad. We note that Henley teaches that
the cameras must be located so as to provide overlapping fields
of view. Hence, in mounting such cameras on a person, one of
ordinary skill in the art would have been led to employ enough
cameras arranged on the garment worn by the person and in a
fashion so as to provide overlapping fields of view over a 360°
degree panoramic field of view based on the combined teachings of
the applied references. Thus, we agree with the examiner that
the combined teachings of Winningstad and Henley would have led
one of ordinary skill in the art to employ multiple user mounted
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