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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