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              Appeal 2007-2215                                                                                     
              Application 09/918,287                                                                               
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         2                 displaying images to a customer at an entertainment event on an                         
         3          interactive display screen accessible at a seating location of the                             
         4          customer, said displayed images comprising at least one of images of                           
         5          participants in the entertainment event and images of the customer                             
         6          while viewing the entertainment event; and                                                     
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         8                 offering an interactive selection session to the customer to                            
         9          permit the customer, while seated at the seating location, to select a                         
        10          desired image or images from the displayed images and select a                                 
        11          desired image product representative of the desired image or images.                           
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        13          7. Weston discloses a photo capturing system for a theme park at which                         
        14    the patrons may order an interactive comic book to be created with their own                         
        15    images taken at the park, receive a radio frequency identification tag to be carried                 
        16    on them for automatic tracking purposes as they move around, and be instructed by                    
        17    a flashing sign or a voice command as they come upon and are detected at various                     
        18    scenes to stop and take part in a photo-opportunity at the scene.  (Weston, col. 5, ll.              
        19    25-33).                                                                                              
        20          8. Gluck discloses a system and method for producing and distributing                          
        21    personalized photographic souvenirs for spectators of an event.  (Gluck, Abstract,                   
        22    ll. 1-3).                                                                                            
        23          9. Gluck discloses using at least one camera system to take an orderly,                        
        24    indexed series of photographs of the spectators at the event such that substantially                 
        25    every spectator will appear in at least one spectator photograph.  (Gluck, Abstract,                 
        26    ll. 7-11).                                                                                           
        27          10. In the system disclosed by Gluck, photographic images are regarded                         
        28    as event souvenirs and are made available for viewing and selection in an                            
        29    interactive session at several video units located at the event site or a walk-up                    
        30    window at an assembly site.  (Gluck, col. 6, l. 62 to col. 7, l. 5).                                 


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