Appeal No. 1998-3064 Page 7
Application No. 08/445,867
predetermined addressing range is determined by drive circuits
(9 and 10).” (Id. at 11.)
The appellants respond, “There is no teaching or
suggestion in the applied references of programming, much less
of how to program, the CPU to provide the address information
as claimed. Moreover, using a programmed CPU to provide
addresses to the display device is contrary to the specific
teachings of the instant application.” (Reply Br. at 2.) We
agree with the appellants.
Independent claim 2 specifies in pertinent part the
following limitations:
a plurality of row drive means connected to a
display means having a display space ..., each said
row drive means being provided for only a
predetermined addressing range of a total range of
addresses within the display space and each being
operative to output relative row address data within
the predetermined addressing range and display data
respectively associated therewith, and
column drive means ... for outputting column
address data to the display means ... and for
outputting relative row and column address data and
display data for each selected row drive means, and
control means for outputting display data and
address data to the column drive means ....
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