Appeal No. 1999-1800
Application No. 08/752,667
a switch associated with a sensor element or sub-pixel for
translating charge to another sensor element or sub-pixel
which is addressed by the data line. Claim 1 is illustrative
of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
1. An amorphous silicon sensor array comprised of a
plurality of individually addressable sensor elements and a
circuit including gate lines, data lines and a control line
for selecting the elements for read out discharge, the array
including:
a plurality of clusters of associated sensor elements
wherein a sensor element in a cluster includes a switch for
switching integrated charge to another of the associated
sensor elements; and,
wherein a one of the gate lines and a one of the data
lines is associated with each one of the clusters, and the
control line is associated with at least one of the sensor
elements in each cluster, for selectively and independently
addressing for discharge the sensor elements in the array.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Street et al., "Amorphous Silicon Arrays Develop a Medical
Image," IEEE Circuits and Devices, July 1993, pp. 38-42.
(Street)
Appellant's Admitted Prior Art in the specification (APA)
Claims 1 through 21 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
as being unpatentable over Street and APA.
2
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007