DETAILED ACTION
This is office action in response to application 19/083,086 originally filed 03/18/2025, in which claims 1-20 are presented for examination.
Election/Restrictions
Applicant’s election without traverse of “Species I” in the reply filed on 12/23/2025 in which claims 1-3, 4, and 6 are indicated as being directed to the elected species is acknowledged. The Office notes that similarly claims 11-14 and 16 recite similar features as in as claims 1-4 and 6.
Therefore, claims 1-4, 6, 11-14, and 16 are readable on the elected species. Claims 5, 7-10, 15, and 17-20 are currently withdrawn from further consideration pursuant to 37 CFR 1.142(b) as being drawn to one or more nonelected inventions.
Drawings
The drawings are objected to under 37 CFR 1.83(b) because they are incomplete. 37 CFR 1.83(b) reads as follows:
When the invention consists of an improvement on an old machine the drawing must when possible exhibit, in one or more views, the improved portion itself, disconnected from the old structure, and also in another view, so much only of the old structure as will suffice to show the connection of the invention therewith.
Corrected drawing sheets in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(d) are required in reply to the Office action to avoid abandonment of the application. Any amended replacement drawing sheet should include all of the figures appearing on the immediate prior version of the sheet, even if only one figure is being amended. The figure or figure number of an amended drawing should not be labeled as “amended.” If a drawing figure is to be canceled, the appropriate figure must be removed from the replacement sheet, and where necessary, the remaining figures must be renumbered and appropriate changes made to the brief description of the several views of the drawings for consistency. Additional replacement sheets may be necessary to show the renumbering of the remaining figures. Each drawing sheet submitted after the filing date of an application must be labeled in the top margin as either “Replacement Sheet” or “New Sheet” pursuant to 37 CFR 1.121(d). If the changes are not accepted by the examiner, the applicant will be notified and informed of any required corrective action in the next Office action. The objection to the drawings will not be held in abeyance.
Specifically, Figure 10 indicates a third period and T3 being turned ON showing current flow through a transistor that is not indicated as being ON however only the lower side transistor is indicated as being ON. Clarification and/or correction is requested.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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.
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 and 11 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Kim et al. U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2023/0178023 A1 hereinafter Kim.
Consider Claim 1:
Kim discloses a display device comprising: (Kim, See Abstract.)
a display panel in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a display area to display an image; and (Kim, [0058], “The display panel 100 may include a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form. The respective pixels may include a plurality of sub pixels. For example, the display panel 100 may include the plurality of pixels (3840×2160 pixels) arranged in the matrix form, and the respective pixels may include three types of sub pixels such as a red (R) sub pixel, a green (G) sub pixel, and a blue (B) sub pixel.”)
a gate driver configured to supply gate scan signals to the pixels on a horizontal line-by-horizontal line basis, (Kim, [0077-0079], “[0077] The gate driver may include various circuitry and generate various control signals such as a control signal(SPWM(n)), a control signal(SPAM), and the like, and configured to transfer the generated various control signals to a specific row (or, a specific horizontal line), or to all the lines of the display panel 100.”)
wherein from among the pixels, pixels that are on a same horizontal line along each gate line are configured to initialize a gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode of a first transistor to an emission initialization voltage in response to a previous gate initialization signal supplied to pixels of a previous horizontal line and a current compensation gate signal from among the gate scan signals in a first period, (Kim, [0099], [0104], “The third transistor T3 may be turned-on based on the second scan signal (SC2(n)) being changed to a high voltage during a third time period ({circle around (3)}) directly after the second time period ({circle around (2)}), and the first initialization signal (Vini) may be applied to the gate terminal of the first transistor (Dr. TFT) according to the third transistor T3 being turned-on. The first initialization signal (Vini) may be voltage which may turn-on the first transistor (Dr. TFT). Further, a high voltage applying time of the second scan signal (SC2(n)) may be controllable.” See Fig. 6.)
to initialize the second electrode of the first transistor to an initialization voltage in response to a current gate initialization signal and the current compensation gate signal from among the gate scan signals in a second period, and to detect and compensate for a threshold voltage of the first transistor in response to the current compensation gate signal and a current write gate signal from among the gate scan signals in a third period. (Kim, [0099], [0106], “The second transistor T2 and the seventh transistor T7 may be turned-on based on the first scan signal (SC1(n)) being changed to a high voltage during a fourth time period ({circle around (4)}) directly after the third time period ({circle around (3)}), the fourth transistor T4 may be turned-off based on the third scan signal (SC2(n-1)) being changed to a low voltage during the fourth time period ({circle around (4)}), the data signal may be a first data value, and may be applied to the gate terminal, the drain terminal and the source terminal of the first transistor (Dr. TFT) according to the second transistor T2 being turned-on, and the second initialization signal (VCR) may be a pre-set second initialization value (VCR(A)), and may be applied to the cathode of the light-emitting device according to the seventh transistor T7 being turned-on.” See Fig. 7.)
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Consider Claim 11:
Kim discloses an electronic device comprising a display device configured to display an image, wherein the display device comprises: (Kim, See Abstract.)
a display panel in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a display area to display an image; and (Kim, [0058], “The display panel 100 may include a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form. The respective pixels may include a plurality of sub pixels. For example, the display panel 100 may include the plurality of pixels (3840×2160 pixels) arranged in the matrix form, and the respective pixels may include three types of sub pixels such as a red (R) sub pixel, a green (G) sub pixel, and a blue (B) sub pixel.”)
a gate driver configured to supply gate scan signals to the pixels on a horizontal line-by-horizontal line basis, (Kim, [0077-0079], “[0077] The gate driver may include various circuitry and generate various control signals such as a control signal(SPWM(n)), a control signal(SPAM), and the like, and configured to transfer the generated various control signals to a specific row (or, a specific horizontal line), or to all the lines of the display panel 100.”)
wherein from among the pixels, pixels that are on a same horizontal line along each gate line are configured to initialize a gate electrode, a first electrode and a second electrode of a first transistor to an emission initialization voltage in response to a previous gate initialization signal supplied to pixels of a previous horizontal line and a current compensation gate signal from among the gate scan signals in a first period, (Kim, [0099], [0104], “The third transistor T3 may be turned-on based on the second scan signal (SC2(n)) being changed to a high voltage during a third time period ({circle around (3)}) directly after the second time period ({circle around (2)}), and the first initialization signal (Vini) may be applied to the gate terminal of the first transistor (Dr. TFT) according to the third transistor T3 being turned-on. The first initialization signal (Vini) may be voltage which may turn-on the first transistor (Dr. TFT). Further, a high voltage applying time of the second scan signal (SC2(n)) may be controllable.” See Fig. 6.)
to initialize the second electrode of the first transistor to an initialization voltage in response to a current gate initialization signal and the current compensation gate signal from among the gate scan signals in a second period, and to detect and compensate for a threshold voltage of the first transistor in response to the current compensation gate signal and a current write gate signal from among the gate scan signals in a third period. (Kim, [0099], [0106], “The second transistor T2 and the seventh transistor T7 may be turned-on based on the first scan signal (SC1(n)) being changed to a high voltage during a fourth time period ({circle around (4)}) directly after the third time period ({circle around (3)}), the fourth transistor T4 may be turned-off based on the third scan signal (SC2(n-1)) being changed to a low voltage during the fourth time period ({circle around (4)}), the data signal may be a first data value, and may be applied to the gate terminal, the drain terminal and the source terminal of the first transistor (Dr. TFT) according to the second transistor T2 being turned-on, and the second initialization signal (VCR) may be a pre-set second initialization value (VCR(A)), and may be applied to the cathode of the light-emitting device according to the seventh transistor T7 being turned-on.” See Fig. 7.)
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2 and 12 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.
Further depending claims 3-10 and 13-20 would be allowable based on their dependence from an objected allowable base claim.
Conclusion
Prior art made of record and not relied upon which is still considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure is cited in a current or previous PTO-892. The prior art cited in a current or previous PTO-892 reads upon the applicants claims in part, in whole and/or gives a general reference to the knowledge and skill of persons having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the invention. Applicant, when responding to this Office action, should consider not only the cited references applied in the rejection but also any additional references made of record.
In the response to this office action, the Examiner respectfully requests support be shown for any new or amended claims. More precisely, indicate support for any newly added language or amendments by specifying page, line numbers, and/or figure(s). This will assist The Office in compact prosecution of this application. The Office has cited particular columns, paragraphs, and/or line numbers in the applied rejection of the claims above for the convenience of the applicant. Citations are representative of the teachings in the art and are applied to the specific limitations within each claim, however other passages and figures may apply. Applicant, in preparing a response, should fully consider the cited reference(s) in its entirety and not only the cited portions as other sections of the reference may expand on the teachings of the cited portion(s).
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/Michael J Jansen II/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2626