Appeal No. 2005-2418
Application 09/932,639
are transmitted in any data packet 180 that may be sent from the
light source 110 to the separate display devices 102 through 108.
Thus, it is clear to us that the individual display devices may
be selected according to the specific commands issued. We
therefore do not agree with appellant’s urging to the contrary at
page 22 of the Brief.
As an additional passing comment, from our study of the
combination of teachings of Pitt and Tymes, the embodiments in
figures 1, 5 and 6 of Tymes also would have indicated the
obviousness of the subject matter of independent claim 19, which
we recognize has not been rejected on this combination of
references. Each of the microprocessors 132 in these figures has
within it an addressable RAM 192 which is clearly a data storage
device to which data has been optically transferred for storage
as discussed in the paragraph at column 4, lines 47 through 59,
of Tymes.
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