Appeal No. 1998-0693
Application No. 08/387,583
BACKGROUND
The appellant's invention relates to an electro-optic mirror with contrasting display.
An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which is reproduced below.
1. An electro-optic display comprising:
a pair of spaced transparent conductive layers having an electro-optic medium
between said layers;
a first voltage source for applying a first electric field across said conductive layers
for changing the light transmission characteristics of said medium;
a display defined by individual conductive display elements patterned on one of
said conductive layers, each of said elements being surrounded by a non-conductive
border; and
a display driver coupled to each of said display elements for selectively applying
voltages to individual ones of said display elements of said one conductive layer to create
an electric field between said elements and said other conductive layer different than said
first electric field to provide a contrasting display.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the
appealed claims are:
Nicholson 4,184,751 Jan. 22, 1980
Admitted Prior Art at pages 1-2 of the specification (APA)
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