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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 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102a1 as being anticipated by Kitano et al. (CN 103109526).
Regarding claim 1, Kitano teaches a detection substrate, comprising an automatic exposure detection unit, a control unit, a gate driving unit, and a data reading unit, wherein the detection substrate further comprises a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines arranged crosswise and a plurality of detection units defined between the gate lines and the data lines, the plurality of detection units being arranged in an array, wherein: the automatic exposure detection unit is configured to transmit a first notification signal to the control unit when detecting a start of exposure (para 110); the control unit is configured to output a first signal and a second signal to the gate driving unit 150 and output a data reading signal to the data reading unit during a scanning time period; when the first notification signal is received during the scanning time period, output the first signal until an end of a current frame, and interrupt an output of the second signal; acquire data read by the data reading unit during a first scanning time period after the exposure is completed, and generate an initial image according to the acquired data; the gate driving unit is configured to control an activation sequence of the plurality of detection units according to the first signal and the second signal during the scanning time period, the first signal being used to determine a scanning time of a row in a frame, and the second signal being used to determine a position of a row of detection units which are turned on (para 229-233); and the data reading unit is configured to read data of the plurality of data lines according to the data reading signal during the scanning time period (figures 6-19 and 44-46, para 226-322 and 522-534).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-14 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
Regarding claims 2-5, the prior art fails to teach the generated initial image, row integration time of each row of pixels from a first row to an interrupted row is t1, row integration time of each row of pixels from the interrupted row to a last row is t2, and difference between tl and t2 is a fixed value, and the interrupted row is a row of detection units which are turned on when the second signal is interrupted, and row integration time of a row of pixels is a time interval between an end of a previous row scanning operation and a start of a current row scanning operation by detection units corresponding to the row of pixels as claimed in claim 2.
Regarding claim 6, the prior art fails to teach the X-ray generator is configured to emit X-rays, and stop emitting X-rays according to received time for current X-ray exposure; the control unit is further configured to detect a position of an interrupted row when the output of the second signal is interrupted, calculate the time for the current X-ray exposure according to the detected position of the interrupted row, wherein the time for the current X-ray exposure = T-AT+ W, wherein T is a scanning time of a row in a frame, AT is a scanning time of a row before the current frame is interrupted, and W is a preset exposure window width, and send the calculated time for the current X-ray exposure to the X-ray generator so that the X-ray generator stops emitting X-rays according to the time for the current X-ray exposure as claimed in claim 6.
Regarding claims 7-14, the prior art fails to teach obtaining the initial image, a position of a current interrupted row and a compensation value acquired by the detection substrate, wherein the position of the interrupted row is a position of a row being scanned when a start of exposure is detected and the output of the second signal is interrupted; using the compensation value to compensate for gray scale of pixels before or after the interrupted row in the initial image to obtain a corrected image as claimed in claim 7.
Conclusion
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/HOON K SONG/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2884
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