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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 1, 21-22, 43, and 45 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Miller et al (Publication number: US 2006/0152524) in view of Chen et al (Publication number: US 2013/0249880).
Consider Claim 1, Miller et al shows a method comprising iterating over pixels of an image of a video, wherein an iteration comprises (see figure 3), for a pixel:
(a) Obtaining a pair of alternating complementary colors based on the color of the pixel (see figure 3; and paragraphs 35-37); (The display device may render a specific spatial portion of an image or temporal portion of an image sequence using one linear combination of the four or more primaries and render one or more other portions of said image or image sequence using one or more additional linear combinations of the four primaries).
(b) Replacing the pixel of the image of the video by a pair of temporally successive pixels based on polarity information, wherein when the polarity information has a first value, setting the color of the first temporally successive pixel to the first color of the pair of alternating complementary colors (see figure 4; and paragraphs 47-48); (The primaries are then sequentially arranged in step 74 from the primary with the most short wavelength energy to the primary with the most long wavelength energy. This may be done using the chromaticity coordinates such that the primaries are arranged to follow the border of the chromaticity diagram's spectrum locus from blue to red and back to blue again. All of the subgamuts that may be formed from neighboring sets of three primaries are then determined in step 76. Each of these subgamuts will then be defined by three primaries with a center primary from the arranged in step 74 list and two neighboring primaries at the extremes or ends of the triangle used to form the subgamut).
(c) Setting the color of the second temporally successive pixel to the second color of the pair of alternating complementary colors, else setting the color of the first temporally successive pixel to the second color of the pair of alternating complementary colors and setting the color of the second temporally successive pixel to the first color of the pair of alternating complementary colors (see figures 3 and 4; and paragraphs 47-48); (If the specification provides a list of colors that are to be rendered differently than the remainder of the image is rendered, the colors in the input image that are within specified bounds of these colors are then selected and their spatial position is determined in step 52. If there is any spatial description provided directly from the specification or converted from color information, the system renders in step 54 any spatial description into a binary or integer image. This binary or integer image represents which of the m N-D look up tables are to be indexed for each spatial location in the image).
However, Miller et al do not specifically show inverting the polarity information for a next pixel.
In related art, Chen et al shows inverting the polarity information for a next pixel (see figures 7a and 7b; paragraphs 47-50); (see polarity pattern in figures 7a and 7b).
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 polarity pattern of Chen et al into the display device of Miller et al in order to reducing flickering (see Chen et al; paragraphs 13 and 14).
Consider Claim 22, Miller et al shows a device comprising one or more processors configured to iterate over pixels of an image of a video, wherein an iteration comprises (see figure 3), for a pixel:
(a) Obtaining a pair of alternating complementary colors based on the color of the pixel (see figure 3; and paragraphs 35-37); (The display device may render a specific spatial portion of an image or temporal portion of an image sequence using one linear combination of the four or more primaries and render one or more other portions of said image or image sequence using one or more additional linear combinations of the four primaries).
(b) Replacing the pixel of the image of the video by a pair of temporally successive pixels based on polarity information, wherein when the polarity information has a first value, setting the color of the first temporally successive pixel to the first color of the pair of alternating complementary colors (see figure 4; and paragraphs 47-48); (The primaries are then sequentially arranged in step 74 from the primary with the most short wavelength energy to the primary with the most long wavelength energy. This may be done using the chromaticity coordinates such that the primaries are arranged to follow the border of the chromaticity diagram's spectrum locus from blue to red and back to blue again. All of the subgamuts that may be formed from neighboring sets of three primaries are then determined in step 76. Each of these subgamuts will then be defined by three primaries with a center primary from the arranged in step 74 list and two neighboring primaries at the extremes or ends of the triangle used to form the subgamut).
(c) Setting the color of the second temporally successive pixel to the second color of the pair of alternating complementary colors, else setting the color of the first temporally successive pixel to the second color of the pair of alternating complementary colors and setting the color of the second temporally successive pixel to the first color of the pair of alternating complementary colors (see figures 3 and 4; and paragraphs 47-48); (If the specification provides a list of colors that are to be rendered differently than the remainder of the image is rendered, the colors in the input image that are within specified bounds of these colors are then selected and their spatial position is determined in step 52. If there is any spatial description provided directly from the specification or converted from color information, the system renders in step 54 any spatial description into a binary or integer image. This binary or integer image represents which of the m N-D look up tables are to be indexed for each spatial location in the image).
However, Miller et al do not specifically show inverting the polarity information for a next pixel.
In related art, Chen et al shows inverting the polarity information for a next pixel (see figures 7a and 7b; paragraphs 47-50); (see polarity pattern in figures 7a and 7b).
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 polarity pattern of Chen et al into the display device of Miller et al in order to reducing flickering (see Chen et al; paragraphs 13 and 14).
Consider Claim 21, Miller et al shows that the temporally successive pixels are displayed using frame averaging and wherein the pair of alternating complementary colors is selected based on an average color between a color of a pixel of a first frame and a color of a pixel of a second frame (see paragraphs 37-40).
Consider Claim 43, Miller et al shows that the device is selected in a set comprising smartphones, tablets, laptops, external monitors, head-mounted displays, television set, video projectors, computer screens, vehicles control system, vehicles entertainment systems, advertisement display panels, medical monitors (see paragraphs 7-9).
Consider Claim 45, Miller et al shows a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising program code instructions for implementing the method according to claim 1 when executed by a processor (see paragraphs 22-26; and figure 2).
Claim 19 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Miller et al (Publication number: US 2006/0152524) in view of Chen et al (Publication number: US 2013/0249880) in view of Chen (Publication number: US 2019/0285921).
Consider Claim 19, Miller et al in view of Chen et al do not specifically show displaying the temporally successive pixels using frequency doubling so that the temporally successive pixels have half duration compared to pixels of the image of the video.
In related art, Chen shows displaying the temporally successive pixels using frequency doubling so that the temporally successive pixels have half duration compared to pixels of the image of the video (see paragraphs 37-38); (Each picture frame_N (i.e., the conventional one frame picture) is displayed with two frame images sequentially, i.e., a picture is divided into two frame images in timing sequence. Through a division to the picture in timing sequence, a frequency doubling can be effected to the frame frequency i.e., doubling the original 60 Hz to 120 Hz).
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 Chen into the teaching of Miller et al and Chen et al in order to perform independent brightness regulations (see Chen; paragraphs 4-6).
Claim 20 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Miller et al (Publication number: US 2006/0152524) in view of Chen et al (Publication number: US 2013/0249880) in view of Tang et al (Publication number: US 2022/0093039).
Consider Claim 20, Miller et al in view of Chen et al do not specifically show that the temporally successive pixels are displayed using frame skipping.
In related art, Tang et al shows the temporally successive pixels are displayed using frame skipping (see paragraphs 28-32; and figure 3).
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 Tang et al into the teaching of Miller et al and Chen et al in order to reduce a display frame rate (see Tang et al; paragraphs 28-32; and figure 3).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-10, and 23-26 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 06/24/2026
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