Appeal No. 1997-1578
Application No. 08/212,292
securing to a shirt pocket or coat lapel. Manually activated
control buttons are provided for selecting the characters of
the message. More particularly, Appellant indicates at page 3
of the specification that the display is driven in a
continuous scrolling manner so that the displayed message
cycles, returning to the beginning after the last characters
have been displayed.
Claim 12 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
12. An electronic lapel button for public displaying of a
scrolling digital message comprising a plurality of characters
comprising:
a lapel-pin-size housing;
an alphanumeric display on an outwardly facing surface of
said housing;
an attachment on an opposite, non-adjacent surface of
said housing;
a digital message memory located within said housing for
recording the digital message;
a driver for driving said display in continuous scrolling
fashion with the digital message so that said digital message
cycles, returning to a first character after a last character
has been displayed resulting in continuous re-display;
a digital message store circuit within said housing and
adapted to operate in response to manually activated controls
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