Appeal No. 2005-1997 Page 12
Application No. 09/493,319
1. Claim Construction
Claim 45 recites in pertinent part the following limitations: "each memory buffer
being located closer to the associated group of pixel cells than another one of the group
of pixel cells." Giving the representative claim its broadest, reasonable construction, the
limitations require locating a memory closer to the pixels that share the memory that to
the pixels that do not.
2. Obviousness Determination
"FIG. 10 [of Nishida] is a partial front view showing the configuration of a color
display 100 of a structure in which a large number of . . . display units [80] are arranged
in a matrix form." Col. 10, ll. 65-67. "[I]n the embodiment shown in FIG. 10 . . . three
light emitting diodes [("LEDs")] 83R, 83G, 83B are included within a single display
unit 80. . . ." Col. 13, ll. 46-48. "FIG. 9 is a circuit diagram of [the] display unit 80. . . ."
Col. 10, ll. 63-64. As shown in Figure 9, the three LEDs 83R, 83G, 83B share a
common memory 82. Because the memory 82 is located in the same display unit 80 as
the LEDs 83R, 83G, 83B that share the memory, we find that the shared memory is
closer to those LEDs than to the LEDs located in other display units. When combining
teachings of Nakajima and Nishida to associate a single memory being with plural
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