Appeal No. 1999-2337
Application 08/655,257
of claims 21, 24, 27 and 30. Appellants argue that as set
forth in Appellants’ specification, the term “orthogonal
expansion,” is used to denote a specific type of mathematical
representation used by the Appellants to drive electrical
signals from a plurality of two-dimensional views. The
Appellants point us to page 5, lines 19 through 22; page 13,
line 19 to page 14, line 19; page 16, lines 18 through 28; and
page 34, lines 23 through 27. On pages 7 and 11 of the
Answer, the Examiner argues that Karras clearly describes the
use of an orthogonal expansion by stating the electrically
energized active display nodes at preselected coordinate
points within the volume of the display where each display
sheet is subdivided into fields by grids forming orthogonal
arrays.
Upon our review of Karras, we find that the term
“orthogonal” used by Karras is limited to a geometric
relationship of elements within its display. Karras does not
disclose the Appellants’ claimed orthogonal expansion which
must
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