Appeal No. 2006-2443
Application No. 10/012,968
We will not sustain the rejection of claim 30 under 35
U.S.C. § 102(b).
While the instant specification is not rife with explanation
of the auto-zeroing of a pixel for bleeding off a charge, page 13
does describe one embodiment of encoding for accomplishing this
function. On the other hand, we can find nothing in Kuribayashi
that mentions or intimates such a function of bleeding off
accumulated charge in pixels of the display panel. To say, as
the examiner does, that charges are bled off merely because
Kuribayashi discloses a clear signal and that it might be “known”
that pixels act like capacitors in accumulating charges, is not
sufficient evidence of a teaching by Kuribayashi of something
responsive to auto-zeroing signals for bleeding off accumulated
charge in pixels in the display panel.
We agree with appellants that Kuribayashi never describes
the clear signal as causing a bleeding off of accumulated charges
in pixels in the display panel and that it appears from
Kuribayashi that the clear signal merely places the pixels about
to receive a scanning selection signal into a known state (see
column 7, lines 40-52, of the reference).
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