DETAILED ACTION
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 .
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
Election/Restrictions
Applicant’s election without traverse of Species I [figures 3-4, corresponding to claims 1-9 & 19] in the reply filed on 11/19/2025 is acknowledged.
Claims 10-18 & 20 are withdrawn from further consideration pursuant to 37 CFR 1.142(b) as being drawn to a nonelected Species, there being no allowable generic or linking claim. Election was made without traverse in the reply filed on 11/19/2025.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 11/26/2024 is being considered by the examiner.
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) 1-2 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Kawabe (US 20080150839).
As to claim 1, Kawabe discloses a display device [abstract] comprising:
a display panel (organic el panel 4) [figs. 1-2 & para. 26 & 29] including a plurality of pixels (pixels 7) [figs. 1-2 & para. 29 & 26];
a data driver (output processor 3) [fig. 1 & para. 26-27 & 29] configured to apply data voltages to the plurality of pixels based on a data signal (image data) [para. 26-27];
a sensing driver (current measuring section 5) [figs. 1 & 4 & para. 37 & 54-56] configured to receive sensing current from at least one pixel of the plurality of pixels and to output sensing data based on the sensing current [figs. 1 & 4 & para. 37 & 54-56];
a non-volatile memory circuit (reference current data storing section 22) [fig. 4 & para. 54-57] configured to store the sensing data as stored sensing data; and
a driving controller (supply controller 20) [figs. 1 & 4 & para. 54-56 & 38] configured to output the data signal to the data driver and to store the sensing data received from the sensing driver,
wherein the driving controller is configured to determine a difference between the stored sensing data and the sensing data by comparing the stored sensing data with the sensing data (pixel current data storing section 23 & reference current data storing section 22 are compared via comparator 24) [fig. 4 & para. 54-57 & 41], and
wherein the non-volatile memory circuit is configured to store the stored sensing data which is the same as the sensing data as stored compensation data [fig. 4 & para. 54-57].
As to claim 2, Kawabe discloses the display device of claim 1, wherein the driving controller compares the stored sensing data with the sensing data by determining whether values obtained by subtracting the sensing data from the stored sensing data are 0 (when no more differences occur) [para. 41].
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 19 is allowed.
Claims 3-9 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 an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
As to claim 19, the prior art fails to teach or suggest, “storing the sensing data as dummy sensing data in a dummy storage circuit;
comparing the dummy sensing data with the stored sensing data;
performing a deleting operation of the stored sensing data, a storing operation of a fail signal, and an outputting operation of an error signal when the dummy sensing data are inconsistent with the stored sensing data; and
storing the stored sensing data as stored compensation data in the non-volatile memory circuit when the dummy sensing data and the stored sensing data are same,
wherein comparison between the stored sensing data and the dummy sensing data is performed by determining whether values obtained by subtracting the sensing data from the stored sensing data are 0”, as claimed.
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Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Lee et al. (US 20180012543).
Mizukoshi (US 20160078813).
Pyun et al. (US 20220013049).
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/DAVID TUNG/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2622