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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1-3 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Kitagawa et al. (US 2021/0019011).
In regard to claim 1, Kitagawa et al. teach a display device with a touch panel (paragraph 10) that operates at a variable frame rate (paragraph 77), wherein the variable frame rate is achieved by changing a length of a first period of one frame period including the first period and a second period (paragraph 77, changing length of pause period), the display device comprising: the touch panel including pixel electrodes (paragraph 3, sensor electrodes used for displaying); and a control unit configured to: perform a writing process of writing data signals to the pixel electrodes (fig. 5 element 120), perform a touch detection process for touches detected by the touch panel (element 120 CTL1 and CTL2), wherein touch detection process comprises at least a first touch detection process and a second touch detection process (figs. 9-11, normal mode and pause mode), start the first touch detection process within the first period, end the first touch detection process before a beginning of the second period that follows the first period (fig. 10 pause period TP driving), forgo outputting first report data reporting a detection result of the first touch detection process when the length of the first period is shorter than a predetermined length (fig. 12 elements S70 and S100), and output the first report data when the length of the first period is equal to or longer than the predetermined length (fig. 14 element S190), and perform, after the second period starts, the second touch detection process, the writing process, and a process of outputting second report data reporting a detection result of the second touch detection process (fig. 12 element S20 and paragraph 85, start normal driving of a new frame).
In regard to claim 2, Kitagawa teaches wherein the control unit is configured to end the first touch detection process, within the first period, when a length of a period in which the first touch detection process is performed becomes equal to or longer than the predetermined length (see fig. 9. The Pause period is ended after the TP signal is transmitted to the host).
In regard to claim 3, Kitagawa et al. teach wherein the control unit is further configured to perform a process of discarding the detection result of the first touch detection process when the length of the first period is shorter than the predetermined length (fig. 12 element S100).
Response to Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed 11/19/25 have been fully considered but they are not persuasive. Applicant argues that the first setting period N1 is between the normal driving period and pause period of Kitagawa et al.; therefore, the pause period does not follow the normal driving period. Whether or not there is a period between the normal driving and pause periods, the pause period still follows the normal driving period.
Conclusion
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/JOSEPH R HALEY/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2621