Appeal No. 1998-3064 Page 11
Application No. 08/445,867
Mano does not cure these deficiencies. The reference
merely teaches a Y drive circuit YDV 12 for scanning an LCD
11 in a vertical direction, col. 5, ll. 40-49, and for
providing display data to a left-hand X drive circuit XDVL 9
and a right-hand X drive circuit XDVR 10 for controlling
display on the LCD 11. Col. 4, l. 57 - col. 5, l. 5. Mano,
however, does not teach providing address data and display
data to the Y drive circuit, the Y drive circuit providing the
address data and display data to the X drive circuits, or the
X drive circuits generating a relative address for the display
data. Consequently, the references neither teach nor would
have suggested a processor providing address data and display
data to a common drive circuit; the common drive circuit
responsively providing the address data and display data to a
selected segment drive circuit; and the selected segment drive
circuit responsively generating a relative address for the
display data as claimed.
For the foregoing reasons, the examiner has not
established a prima facie case of obviousness. Therefore, we
reverse the rejection of claims 2 and 4-12.
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