Appeal No. 96-1446
Application 08/103,174
that matrix displays existed such that they included a
plurality of picture elements or pixels. The column 1, lines
11 through 16 reference relied upon by the examiner in
Yoshimura indicates that LCD as well as EL-type displays, the
two utilized by appellant, both existed in a matrix form of
picture elements. Yoshimura’s Figure 3 shows a two
dimensional array of picture elements otherwise indicated as
display elements in his other figures.
Clearly, from an artisan's perspective then, the
collective teachings of Bly and Yoshimura would have indicated
to the artisan that it was known in the art to arrange such
display types as LCD and EL having two dimensional forms of
picture elements. Furthermore, the selective controllability
of both Bly and Yoshimura would have also indicated to the
artisan that each of the picture elements would have been
desirably controllable.
Thus, appellant's reliance upon column 1, lines 25 to 35
of Bly to indicate that Bly teaches away from a two
dimensional array picture element is initially misplaced in
our view. We do not regard such teaching as a true teaching
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