Appeal No. 2005-1997 Page 2
Application No. 09/493,319
The invention at issue on appeal concerns silicon light modulators ("SLMs").
According to the appellant, many applications use SLMs. For example, a color
projector may use three SLMs to modulate red, green, and blue light beams,
respectively, to produce a multicolored composite image. As another example, a
display for a laptop computer may include an SLM along with red, green, and blue color
filters selectively mounted over the pixel cells to produce a multicolored composite
image. (Spec. at 1.)
Figure 1 of the appellant's specification shows that a known SLM 1 features liquid
crystal display ("LCD") pixel cells 25, which form corresponding pixels of an image.
Each pixel cell 25 is part of an SLM cell 20, which also includes a capacitor 24 that
stores a charge to maintain the appropriate voltage "on" the pixel cell. The SLM cells
are arranged in a rectangular array 6 of rows and columns. (Id.) The rows are
associated with row lines 14; the columns are associated with column lines 16. Each
pair of row lines and column lines uniquely selects an SLM cell to transfer a charge (in
the Summary of the Invention section of his brief, the appellant merely reproduces
pages 4-7 of his specification. (Appeal Br. at 2-6.) Because such a reproduction is not
a concise explanation, it fails to satisfy the aforementioned rule. We ask the examiner's
help in objecting to such reproductions in the future.
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