Appeal No. 96-1855 Application 07/953,807 wherein said halftone pattern generating means includes: ON data generating means for generating ON data in response to the input display data which represents said display-ON for a pixel; OFF data generating means for generating OFF data in response to the input display data which represents said display-OFF for a pixel; halftone data generating means for generating ON data and OFF data alternately in successive frames as halftone data in response to the input display data which represents the halftone display for a pixel; comparing means for comparing the input display data for a pertinent line with the input display data for a preceding line stored in said line memory for every line, the preceding line being in a same frame as the pertinent line; and inverting means for inverting a phase of changing- over said ON data and said OFF data of said halftone data in accordance with an output of said comparing means. The Examiner relies on the following reference: Bassetti, Jr. et al. 5,185,602 Feb. 9, 1993 (Bassetti) (filed Apr. 10, 1989) Claims 1 through 8 and 10 through 17 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Bassetti. -8-8Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007