Appeal No. 96-1446
Application 08/103,174
claim 5 requires that the picture elements be arranged in a
two dimensional matrix form. In the paragraph at the top of
column 2 of Bly, lines 6-12, various types of display
approaches are generally taught including scan modes
permitting "pixel-at-a-time" scanning modes. The showing of
the M matrix from the perspective of the viewer's eye at 62 in
Figure 1 would have clearly indicated to the artisan a two
dimensional matrix form was the resulting image presented to
the user 62. Additionally, with respect to the discussion of
Figure 2, the language at column 2, lines 51 through 55
indicate to the artisan and the reader that a video type scan
was attempted to be duplicated in the circuit arrangement of
Figure 2. This in addition to the other teachings and
showings in Bly clearly would have suggested to the artisan a
video-type scan or a raster scanned picture element based
approach was obvious to the artisan. In any event, the
evidence provided by the examiner in the form of Yoshimura's
teachings and the noted portions relied upon by the examiner
clearly would have indicated to the artisan that a few years
later in the art as compared with Bly, Yoshimura indicates
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