Appeal No. 1999-1687 Page 2
Application No. 08/152,102
is periodically thinned to facilitate rolling of the device.
An understanding of the invention can be derived from a
reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced as follows:
1. A two-dimensional color display device allowing
selective generation and display of a broad range of colors,
said device comprising:
a plurality of luminous elements each having luminous
wavelengths different from each other collectively disposed on
a flexible substrate in an N x M matrix arrangement, said
flexible substrate being periodically thinned so as to
facilitate rolling of the device, at least one of emission
intensity and a luminous color of each of said luminous
elements being separately controllable from those of other
ones of said luminous elements, said controllability being
conducted on the basis of selective variation of at least one
of a time series pulse intensity and a width which is applied
to said luminous element, such that each luminous element
emits a desired emission intensity and luminous color, and a
collective emission intensity and luminous color of adjacent
ones of said luminous elements effect display of a desired
color, one of said luminous elements being controlled so that
the emission intensity thereof is different from the emission
intensity of at least one other luminous element when said one
and said at least one other luminous element emit light, and
wherein N and M are each an integer not less than 2; and
signal wiring connected to said luminous elements, said
signal wiring being arranged in a matrix.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Scheib 4,439,818 Mar. 27, 1984
Havel 4,965,561 Oct. 23, 1990
(Effecive filing date: Jan. 08, 1986)
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