Appeal 2007-0996
Application 09/949,721
a backlight corresponding to said display screen of said
display device; and
a control unit for automatically controlling said
backlight based on an information signal data concerning said
image to be displayed in such a way that a part of said backlight
corresponding to a non-image area on said display screen is
turned off,
wherein said information signal data concerning said
image is supplied from an image data supplying source together
with said image signal data used for displaying said image on
said display screen of said display device, and
wherein said image displayed on said display screen of
said display device is a target image for a medical diagnostic
use.
C. REJECTIONS
Claims 1, 6, and 8-18 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as
anticipated by U.S. Patent No 6,269,565 ("Inbar"). Claims 2-4 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as obvious over Inbar and U.S. Patent
No. 6,496,236 ("Cole"). Claims 5 and 19 stand rejected under § 103(a) as
obvious over Inbar and the Appellant's admitted prior art ("AAPA").
Claim 7 stands rejected under § 103(a) as obvious over Inbar and U.S. Patent
No. 6,292,157 ("Greene").
II. ISSUE
"Rather than reiterate the positions of parties in toto, we focus on the
issue therebetween." Ex parte Filatov, No. 2006-1160, 2007 WL 1317144,
at *2 (BPAI 2007). The Examiner finds, "Inbar discloses in Fig. 2, in image
display apparatus comprising: a flat shape transmission device (LCA 20 and
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