Appeal No. 2006-1054
Application No. 09/739,619
Claims 1 and 2 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as being unpatentable over
Hiroaki.
Claims 3-9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Hiroaki and Ota.
Claims 10 and 11 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Hiroaki and Leppisaari.
Claims 12-15 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Hiroaki, Leppisaari, and Ota.
Claims 16 and 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Hiroaki and Kobayashi.
Claims 18-21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Hiroaki, Kobayashi, and Ota.
We refer to the Final Rejection (mailed Jan. 12, 2004) and the Examiner’s
Answer (mailed May 27, 2004) for a statement of the examiner’s position and to the
Brief (filed Apr. 9, 2004) and the Reply Brief (filed Jul. 12, 2004) for appellants’ position
with respect to the claims which stand rejected.
OPINION
Appellants submit that Hiroaki does not disclose a “means for guiding the
operator’s line of sight toward said imaging portion,” thus failing to anticipate instant
claim 1. We find that the means for guiding the operator’s line of sight toward the
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