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 .
Examiner’s Notes
Please reconsider the language “an refractive,” as it seems that the Applicant intends the language “a refractive.”
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.
Claims 22-25, 32, 35, and 40-41 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Fang et al (Publication number: US 2024/0142818).
Consider Claim 22, Fang et al shows a display panel (see figures 7-9), comprising:
(a) A base substrate (see figures 11-13); (Read as substrate 00).
(b) A display structure layer on a side of the base substrate; wherein the display structure layer comprises a plurality of sub-pixels (see figures 2 and 3; and paragraphs 43-45); (FIG. 2 schematically illustrates the sub-pixels PO included in the display module).
(c) At least one of the plurality of sub-pixels comprises: a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element electrically connected to the pixel circuit; the light-emitting element comprises: a first light-emitting unit and a second light- emitting unit; a light-emitting region of the first light-emitting unit is isolated from a light- emitting region of the second light-emitting unit (see figures 11, and 12; and paragraphs 45-48); (The first light emitting unit is read as optical layer A. The second light emitting layer is read as optical layer B).
(d) An optical component on a light-emitting side of the display structure layer; wherein the optical component comprises: a first optical film layer, and a second optical film layer on a side of the first optical film layer away from the base substrate; an refractive index of the second optical film layer is greater than an refractive index of the first optical film layer (see figures 11, and 12; and paragraphs 45-48); (The composite optical film 40 may include first optical layers A and second optical layers B alternately arranged along the first direction D1. The refractive index of the first optical layer A may be n1, and the refractive index of the second optical layer B may be n2. The first optical layer A and the second optical layer B may be alternately stacked, and the refractive indices of the first optical layer A and the second optical layer B may be different. The refractive index difference between the first optical layer A and the second optical layer B increases, the interface reflectivity may also increase).
(e) The first optical film layer is provided with an isolation portion and a plurality of openings; an orthographic projection of the opening on the base substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of the light-emitting region of the first light-emitting unit on the base substrate (see figure 20; and paragraphs 102-106).
Consider Claim 23, Fang et al shows an orthographic projection of the isolation portion on the base substrate at least partially covers an orthographic projection of the light-emitting region of the second light-emitting unit on the base substrate (see figures 11, and 12; and paragraphs 45-48); (The first light emitting unit is read as optical layer A. The second light emitting layer is read as optical layer B).
Consider Claim 24, Fang et al shows an orthographic projection of the isolation portion on the base substrate at least partially covers an orthographic projection of a first gap between the light-emitting region of the first light-emitting unit and the light-emitting region of the second light-emitting unit on the base substrate, and at least partially covers an orthographic projection of a second gap between different light-emitting elements on the base substrate (see figures 11, and 12; and paragraphs 45-48); (The composite optical film 40 may include first optical layers A and second optical layers B alternately arranged along the first direction D1. The refractive index of the first optical layer A may be n1, and the refractive index of the second optical layer B may be n2. The first optical layer A and the second optical layer B may be alternately stacked, and the refractive indices of the first optical layer A and the second optical layer B may be different. The refractive index difference between the first optical layer A and the second optical layer B increases, the interface reflectivity may also increase).
Consider Claim 25, Fang et al shows that the plurality of sub-pixels comprise: a first sub-pixel emitting a first color light, a second sub-pixel emitting a second color light, and a third sub-pixel emitting a third color light; the light-emitting element of the third sub-pixel and the light-emitting element of the first sub-pixel are sequentially distributed along a first direction; and the light-emitting element of the first sub-pixel and the light-emitting element of the second sub-pixel are sequentially distributed in a second direction; the first light-emitting unit and the second light-emitting unit are distributed in sequence along the second direction (see paragraphs 106-110; and figures 2-4); (At least a portion of the pixel openings KO may be filled with color resists S. For example, some of the pixel openings KO may be filled with red color-resist, some of the pixel openings KO may be filled with green color-resist, and some of the pixel openings KO may be filled with blue color-resist. When the light passes through these color-resistors S, the color display of the liquid crystal cell 30 may be realized).
Consider Claim 32, Fang et al shows that the display panel further comprises: a color filter layer on a side of the optical component away from the base substrate; the color filter layer comprising: a plurality of filter units periodically arranged, and a black matrix between adjacent filter units, wherein the plurality of filter units correspond one-to-one to the light-emitting elements of the plurality of sub-pixels (see paragraphs 108-110); (The color filter substrate 32 included in the display liquid crystal cell 30 may be provided with a black matrix BM1. The black matrix BM1 may include pixel openings KO that allow light to pass through).
Consider Claim 35, Fang et al shows that the display panel comprises: a plurality of first light-emitting control lines and a plurality of second light-emitting control lines extending along the first direction; wherein the first light-emitting units in the same light-emitting element row are electrically connected to the same first light-emitting control line, and the second light- emitting units in the same light-emitting element row are electrically connected to the same second light-emitting control line (see figure 2; paragraphs 44-46); (The light control cell 20 may be disposed between the backlight module 10 and the display liquid crystal cell 30. The introduced light control cell 20 regulates the light emitted by the backlight module 10 in partitions, and then transmits the light regulated by the light control cell 20 to the display liquid crystal cell 30 such that the black state picture displayed by the display liquid crystal cell 30 may be even blacker, thereby effectively improving the contrast of the display liquid crystal cell 30).
Consider Claim 40, Fang et al shows that the display panel (see figure 2).
Consider Claim 41, Fang et al shows that in response to determining to display in an anti-peeping display mode, controlling a pixel electrode to drive the first light-emitting unit of the light-emitting element to emit light; in response to determining to display in a sharing display mode, controlling the pixel electrode to drive the first light-emitting unit and the second light-emitting unit of the light- emitting element to emit light simultaneously (see figures 11, and 12; and paragraphs 45-48); (The composite optical film 40 may include first optical layers A and second optical layers B alternately arranged along the first direction D1. The refractive index of the first optical layer A may be n1, and the refractive index of the second optical layer B may be n2. The first optical layer A and the second optical layer B may be alternately stacked, and the refractive indices of the first optical layer A and the second optical layer B may be different. The refractive index difference between the first optical layer A and the second optical layer B increases, the interface reflectivity may also increase).
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claims 33-34 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Fang et al (Publication number: US 2024/0142818) in view of Zhang (Publication number: US 2016/0043343).
Consider Claim 33, Fang et al does not specifically show that the display structure layer comprises: an anode layer, and a plurality of light-emitting layers on a side of the anode layer away from the base substrate; wherein the light-emitting layers of the same light-emitting element have the same light-emitting color, and the light-emitting layers of different light-emitting elements have different light-emitting colors.
In related art, Zhang shows that the display structure layer comprises: an anode layer, and a plurality of light-emitting layers on a side of the anode layer away from the base substrate; wherein the light-emitting layers of the same light-emitting element have the same light-emitting color, and the light-emitting layers of different light-emitting elements have different light-emitting colors (see paragraphs 18-20); (The anode layer or the cathode layer is disposed as an upper most layer of the array substrate; the package substrate including a second base substrate and a graphene layer, wherein, the graphene layer is disposed as an upper most layer of the package substrate; a conductive filler is filled between the array substrate and the package substrate).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the application to incorporate the teaching of Zhang into the teaching of Fang et al in order to improve the display effect (see Zhang; paragraphs 3-5).
Consider Claim 34, Zhang shows that the display structure layer further comprises: a charge transfer layer between adjacent light-emitting layers (see paragraphs 18-20).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 26-31, and 36-39 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.
Conclusion
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/MICHAEL A FARAGALLA/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2624 08/05/2026
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