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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 Objections
Claims 1 and 26 are objected to because of the following informalities: “determining a pair of alternating complementary colors … wherein a sum of energies consumed by displaying a pair of pixels, each having a respective color of the alternating complementary colors, is lower than twice an energy consumed by displaying a pixel having the input color” not clear.
It is not understood how to determine “a pair of alternating complementary colors” and “an average color of the pair of alternating complementary colors is identical or perceptually similar to the input color”, and how to measure “a sum of energies consumed by displaying a pair of pixels” such that “a sum of energies consumed by displaying a pair of pixels, each having a respective color of the alternating complementary colors, is lower than twice an energy consumed by displaying a pixel having the input color” achieved as a result. Claims 1 and 26 do not provide any technical description and method steps to achieve the result as claimed. Appropriate correction is required. No new matter should be added.
Claim 53 is objected to because of the following informalities: claim 53 relates to “non-transitory computer readable medium comprising program code instructions”, but depends on a method claim 1. Appropriate correction is required.
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.
Claims 1, 26 and 53 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Wu et al. (US 20190189726).
As to claim 1, Wu discloses a method comprising, for an input color of a pixel (Fig. 2, [0060], [0063]);
determining a pair of alternating complementary colors based on the input color of the pixel (Fig. 3, [0064]: pair of color lights may be referred to as complementary color lights, such as, red and cyan, green and violet, blue and yellow),
wherein an average color of the pair of alternating complementary colors is identical or perceptually similar to the input color ([0064]: mixture of color lights in the spectrum is an additive color mixture (i.e., a color mixture by addition), with a principle of complementary color mixture among various colors as illustrated in FIG. 3, [0065]), and
wherein a sum of energies consumed by displaying a pair of pixels, each having a respective color of the alternating complementary colors, is lower than twice an energy consumed by displaying a pixel having the input color ([0064]: Red+Green=Yellow; Red+Blue=Violet; Blue+Green=Cyan; and Red+Green+Blue=White, [0055]: decreased power consumption, [0065]: yellow light emitted by the yellow light-emitting sub-units of the OLED panel passes through the red sub-pixel unit above all, and then a color light of the green light wavebands which is contained in the yellow light may be filtered out by the red filter block(s) (located on the color film substrate) in the red sub-pixel unit, and only a red light is presented therefrom finally, i.e., as to the red sub-pixel unit, it has a light utilization efficiency of approximately ½, for the first light which is the yellow light; similarly, a color light of the red light wavebands which is contained in the yellow light emitted by the yellow light-emitting sub-units may filtered out by the green sub-pixel unit, and only a green light is presented therefrom finally, i.e., as to the green sub-pixel unit, it also has a light utilization efficiency of approximately ½, for the first light which is the yellow light, [0066] – [0067]: by an addition of light utilization efficiencies of each type of pixel units, i.e., (½+½+⅓+1)/(1+1+1+1)= 7/12. That is to say, the integral light loss rate is approximately 1- 7/12= 5/12 (≈41.67%). Therefore, it is interpreted that a sum of energies consumed by displaying a pair of pixels, each having a respective color of the alternating complementary colors, is lower than twice an energy consumed by displaying a pixel having the input color).
As to claim 26, it is the apparatus of claim 1. Please see claim 1 for detail analysis.
As to claim 53, Wu teaches a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising program code instructions for implementing the method according to claim 1 when executed by a processor (Fig. 2, [0063]: it is well known in the art that a display device will have a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising program code instructions for implementing the method according to claim 1 when executed by a processor).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-3, 7-10, 12, 14-17, 27, 33 and 39-41 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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/AFROZA CHOWDHURY/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2628
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