Appeal No. 1998-1319
Application No. 08/466,188
showing why such a timing correction circuit would have been
obvious to the skilled artisan. Therefore, we cannot sustain
the rejection of claims 24 through 27 over Aoki.
As to claims 18 and 19, appellants' sole argument (Brief,
page 9) is that Aoki does not suggest an X-direction driving
circuit which outputs a constant voltage level during a
horizontal scanning period. However, as we determined above,
claims 18 and 19 do not specify that the constant voltage must
be for the entire scanning period. The claims merely state
that the output signals from the generator are at different
constant voltage levels. In Aoki, the voltages output from
the generator 11 are constant for some period of time, though
not necessarily for an entire horizontal scanning period.
Therefore, we are not persuaded by appellants' argument, and
we will affirm the rejection of claims 18 and 19 over Aoki.
For claim 23, appellants contend (Brief, page 10) that
Aoki "fail[s] to teach or suggest a single tone voltage
resulting from the selection of one of a plurality [sic]
multi-tone image data which is held constant for one
horizontal scanning period, and further fails to teach or
suggest a tone voltage representing multi-tone image data."
12
Page: Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007