Appeal No. 1997-1197 Application 08/130,255 the structure in Kajihara is an equivalent, without particularly pointing out what structure in figures 10a and 10b is the structure required to perform the claimed functions or why the structure in Kajihara is not the same or an equivalent. For these two reasons, the issue of structure and equivalents under § 112, sixth paragraph, should not be an issue in any judicial review. Without waiving this position, for Appellants' benefit we comment on why the means-plus- function language of claim 9 does not distinguish over Kajihara. Kajihara performs the functions of the "memory controller means" for the reasons stated in connection with claim 16. As to the structure, the only described structure absolutely required to perform the function of "sequentially writing said pixel data to said memory in a first sequence" is address logic having a write signal which can generate one write sequence and the only structure absolutely required to perform the function of "selectively reading said pixel data from said memory in said first sequence . . . or reading said pixel data in a second sequence" is address logic having a - 15 -Page: Previous 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007