Appeal No. 1999-2337
Application 08/655,257
Thus, in order for us to determine the scope of the
claims before us we must turn to Appellants’ specification.
We note that the planar display means corresponds to a
reflective light device 19 as disclosed on pages 10 and 11 of
the specification. The specification states that the
reflective light device 19 is a digital micromirror device
offered by Texas Instruments. The specification states that
the reflective light device is a set of very small mirrors or
micromirrors that are electronically controlled to reflect
light in one or two possible orientations all arranged in a
single plane. Thus, a planar display means must be properly
construed as being a display having single picture elements or
pixels that are arranged in a single plane.
Turning to Kuga, we find that Kuga discloses in column 5,
lines 60 through 63, that the display device includes picture
elements arrange in three panels that are not in a single
plane. Kuga further discloses in column 8, lines 28 through
38, that the flat display panel is three stacked flat display
panels in which the pixels are arranged on each of these
display panels. Therefore, we find that Kuga does not
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