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Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences > 1997 > Ex parte TRAINOR et al. - Page 5
Appeal No. 95-2631
Application 07/950,402
the total system in greater detail, he specifies a location B on
the total area basic screen that corresponds to the center of the
area of interest. The user then specifies a magnification factor
which determines the area surrounding the location B that will be
displayed. Areas C and D of Figure 4 represent areas surrounding
location B that correspond to two possible magnification factor
choices. The display area E requested by the user, based on the
specified location B and magnification factor, is then displayed
on the screen.
Morrison relates to displays for time-varying binary-valued
electric signals. The apparatus of Morrison
includes a display in which a plurality of
electrically-controllable illuminative elements are
arranged in a matrix having at least first and second
rows and a plurality of columns. Advantageously, each
element is a light-emitting diode. . . .
The apparatus includes display sweep circuitry that, in
contrast to a conventional oscilloscope, is constructed
of digital circuitry, there being no need to generate
high voltage linear ramps according to the invention.
[Column 2, lines 1-12.]
In rejecting claims 1-5, 8 and 10 as being unpatentable over
Kinoshita in view of Yoshiura, the examiner, on pages 2-3 of the
answer, took the positions that (1) because Kinoshita is directed
to a means for regulating and distributing power to a matching
system, it is directed to an apparatus for controlling an
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