Appeal No. 1998-0662
Application No. 08/561,223
Claims 7 and 17 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Masumori in view of Hanmura
and further in view of Stoltz.
Rather than repeat the arguments of Appellants or the
Examiner, we make reference to the brief and the answer for
the details thereof.
OPINION
After a careful review of the evidence before us, we
agree with the Examiner that claims 1, 4, 7 through 9, 11, 15,
17, 18 and 20 are properly rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Thus, we will sustain the rejection of these claims but we
will reverse the rejection of remaining claims on appeal for
the reasons set forth infra.
The Examiner indicates that Masumori teaches the claimed
invention except for (1) the use of two A/D converters instead
of one as claimed, (2) a common connection for two adjacent
rows to their enable lines, (3) masking of the least
significant bit of a row address, and (4) use of a digital
mirror device (DMD) as the SM. The Examiner observes that
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