Ex Parte STEPHENSON - Page 9



         Appeal No. 2005-0175                                       Page 9          
         Application No. 09/241,700                                                 

         worn by a person using cameras.  In this regard, the silence of            
         Henley with respect to such a garment-mounted camera arrangement           
         does not constitute a teaching away.  Indeed, Henley teaches that          
         the cameras can have overlapping fields of view and that the               
         digital output from such cameras can be processed for digital              
         separation of redundant pixels and removal of distortions                  
         therefrom.  See, e.g., column 3, lines 13-22 and column 4, lines           
         3-10 of Henley.  That disclosure of Henley does not suggest that           
         the cameras of Henley must be mounted in an absolutely precise             
         fashion relative to each other for the product signals of each             
         camera to be used to form a panoramic image.  Thus, a body                 
         mounting arrangement via a garment, as here contemplated, would            
         not be specifically taught away from by Henley.  Nor does the              
         teaching in the preferred embodiments of Henley with respect to            
         arranging the cameras in a housing amount to a teaching away from          
         other camera arrangements that would have commended themselves to          
         one of ordinary skill in the art based on the combined teachings           
         of the references for reasons explained by the examiner in the             
         answer.  In our view, appellant’s arguments herein simply do not           
         take into account the proposition that all of the disclosures in           
         the applied references, including non-preferred embodiments, must          
         be evaluated for what they fairly teach one of ordinary skill in           





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