Appeal No. 1997-0627
Application 08/266,159
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The disclosed invention relates to an active matrix display device, and to a method of driving
the display device.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
1. An active matrix display device comprising:
a plurality of pixels arranged two-dimensionally in columns and rows,
a plurality of driving elements wherein a driving element is provided for each pixel to drive the
pixel, and wherein a group of signal lines for feeding signals to the driving elements are provided for
each column of pixels and each driving element of a column is connected to a selected one of said
group, so that the driving elements of each adjacent pixel in a column are driven by a different selected
one of the signal lines from said group of signal lines and the driving elements provided for each row of
pixels are connected to the same selected one in each group of signal lines provided for each column of
pixels,
a plurality of gating signal lines wherein each of the gating signal lines is connected to the driving
elements of a single row of pixels so that each gating signal line provides an ON state gating signal to
the driving elements of a different respective row of pixels, and
wherein the time necessary to feed the signals from said group of signal lines for each column to
each driving element of a row of pixels is substantially less than an ON state gating signal time of said
row of pixels.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Inoue et al. (Inoue) 4,724,433 Feb. 9, 1988
Maekawa et al. (Maekawa) 2 2-252378 Oct. 11, 1990
2This reference was incorrectly identified as Toshichi throughout the prosecution of this case.
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