Ex parte YAMAZAKI et al. - Page 4




          Appeal No. 97-2020                                                          
          Application 07/957,107                                                      



                    inputting into a pixel of said display one or more                
          pulses, each pulse having a pulse height and a pulse duration               
          depending upon a desired gradation level of the display at                  
          said pixel,                                                                 
                    wherein each of said one or more pulses has a rela-               
          tive pulse duration selected from the group consisting of 1,                
          2, @@@ 2  and has a relative pulse height selected from thek                                                                     
          group con- sisting of 0, 1, 2, @@@ I so that the pulse duration             
          and the pulse height of said pulses are both varied whereby                 
          the minimum width of said pulses can be increased.                          
                    The Examiner relies on the following references:                  
          De Jule                 4,130,777                Dec. 19, 1978              
          Williams                4,427,978                Jan. 24, 1984              





                    Claims 14 through 16 and 2 through 7 stand rejected               
          provisionally under the judicially created doctrine of                      
          obviousness-type double patenting as being unpatentable over                
          claims 1 and 12 of copending application Serial No.                         
          07/957,106.  Claims 2 through 7, 14 and 15 stand rejected                   
          under 35 U.S.C.     § 103 as being unpatentable over the                    
          admitted prior art found in the Appellants' specification on                
          pages 1 through 7, and De Jule.  Claim 16 stands rejected                   
          under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over the admitted               
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