Appeal No. 2006-2443
Application No. 10/012,968
that the white data signal and black data signal shown therein
have the same charge, but simply charge in different stages.
Accordingly, argue appellants, the examiner’s assumption that
black corresponds to some chargeless state is unsupported and
meritless.
Moreover, note appellants, the specification of Kuribayashi
never suggests that the clearing signal is for the purpose of
bleeding off charge. Rather, the purpose of the clearing signal
is to orient related pixels in advance “to one orientation state
of the ferroelectric liquid crystal to form a dark state, thus,
effecting a step of clearing into a ‘black’ state” (column 7,
lines 47-49). As stated by appellants, “All the clearing signal
does is put the pixels that are about to be receiving the
scanning selection signal into a known state so that the effect
of the scanning selection signal will be determinant” (reply
brief-page 2). That is, “there is no basis to suggest that
clearing to the black state would have any effect of bleeding off
charge. It merely distributes charge of essentially the same
amount in different phases” (reply brief-page 2).
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