Appeal No. 1997-0189
Application No. 07/983,118
means for providing red light to each of the windows
of the light gate array for a first predetermined period;
means for providing green light to each of the
windows of the light gate array for a second predetermined
period, said second predetermined period not simultaneous
with said first predetermined period;
means for providing blue light to each of the
windows of the light gate array for a third predetermined
period, said third predetermined period not simultaneous
with said first predetermined period or second
predetermined period;
means for opening pre-selected windows of said light
gate array during pre-selected portions of the first,
second, and third predetermined periods; and
means for scanning the pixel column rendering means
to generate an image from a plurality of sequentially-
rendered individual pixel columns, with each of said
individual pixel columns having red, green and blue color
components offset from one another, with light pulses
corresponding to a single column of pixels being
alternatingly transmitted through said first and second
portions of windows, and with said scanning means imaging
pixels transmitted through said first and second portions of
windows into a single column of aligned pixels.
The Examiner relies on the following references:2
Mourey et al. (Mourey) 4,593,978 Jun. 10, 1986
Suntola 4,907,862 Mar. 13, 1990
2In the final rejection mailed August 4, 1995, the
Examiner had made an obviousness rejection of claims 37, 38,
42, and 43, and 50 based on the Roddy et al. reference
(5,162,929) in various combinations with the other applied
prior art. This rejection is no longer maintained by the
Examiner in this appeal.
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