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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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 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.
Claim(s) 1, 10 and 14 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Meng et al. (WO 2021016942)(see English Translation of text) in view of Kang et al. (US 2020/0043420).
As to claims 1, 10, and 14, Meng discloses a display device (Fig. 15, (1) comprising an array substrate (Figs. 5 and 13, (100) and method (page 4, lines 16-49, and page 5, line 1), comprising a driving module (Fig. 13, (Gate driving circuit (200) and Data driving circuit (300)) , a plurality of scanning lines extending in a first direction (Fig. 13, (GL<1> to GL<10>), a plurality of data lines extending in a second direction (Fig. 13, DL<1>, DL<2>, DL<3>…), and a plurality of pixels (Fig. 13, (PU); wherein the pixel comprises at least three subpixels having different colors (Fig. 13, (RGB), two scanning lines are arranged between two adjacent rows of subpixels (Fig. 13, (GL<2> and GL<3>), two columns of subpixels are arranged between two data lines (Fig. 13, (see first row, columns 6 and 7, are arranged between data line (DL<3> and DL<2>), and the subpixel is electrically coupled to the data line and configured to receive a data voltage provided by the data line under the control of a scanning signal provided by the scanning line (Fig. 13, page 14, lines 26-33 (conventional functionality)); in a same row of subpixels, the subpixels electrically coupled to a same data line have at least two colors (Fig. 13, (First row of subpixels, subpixels R and G are connected to same data line); in adjacent rows of subpixels (Fig. 13, first and second rows) at least two subpixels electrically coupled to a same data line have a same color (R in first row, and R in second row, are both coupled to the same data line).
However, Meng, further, does not specifically disclose controlling, within a display frame, that an overlapping time period and a non-overlapping time period are comprised between active time periods of the scanning signals provided by at least two scanning lines enabled sequentially; and the data voltage received by the data line within at least part of the overlapping time period is the same as the data voltage received by the data line within at least part of the non-overlapping time period.
Kang et al. discloses controlling (see Figs . 11 and 12), within a display frame [0229], that an overlapping time period (Figs. 11 and 12, (OP) and a non-overlapping time period (Figs. 11 and 12, (NOP) are comprised between active time periods of the scanning signals provided by at least two scanning lines enabled sequentially (See Figs. 11 and 12, [0226-0227, 0230]; and the data voltage received by the data line within at least part of the overlapping time period (Figs. 11 and 12, Vdata)is the same as the data voltage received by the data line within at least part of the non-overlapping time period (Figs. 11 and 12, (Vdata_CTR)[0231, and 0256-0269](The reduction or difference between Vdata and Vdata_CTR may vary depending on gray level, or the colors R,G,B, and W of light emitted by the second subpixel SPb, which includes the possibility of a negligible difference, or equal Vdata voltages both in overlapping and non-overlapping time periods). Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of filing to have the same data voltage withing at least part of the overlapping and within at least part of the non-overlapping time periods, as taught by Kang, in the device of Meng, since it is possible to reduce or prevent luminance differences due to image blurring or different emission periods depending on line position by performing the fake data insertion (FDI) driving of inserting a fake image, different from real images, into every line of a plurality of lines, thereby improving image quality [0312].
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-9, 11-13, and 15-19 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 a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: Claims 2-9, 11-13, and 15-19 are indicated as allowable since certain key features of the claimed invention are not taught or fairly suggested by the prior art. In claims 2, 11, and 15, “subpixels in a (4m-1)th row and the odd-numbered columns are electrically coupled to an (8m-2)th scanning line, and subpixels in the (4m-1)th row and the even-numbered columns are electrically coupled to an (8m-3)th scanning line; and subpixels in a (4m)th row and the odd-numbered columns are electrically coupled to an (8m-1)th scanning line, and subpixels in the (4m)th row and the even-numbered columns are electrically coupled to an (8m)th scanning line, where a and m are both positive integers”. In claims 6, 12, and 19, “subpixels in the (4m-2)th row and even-numbered columns are electrically coupled to an (8m-3)th scanning line,… subpixels in a (4m)th row and the odd-numbered columns are electrically coupled to an (8m-1)th scanning line, and subpixels in the (4m)th row and the even-numbered columns are electrically coupled to an (8m)th scanning line, …where a and m are both positive integers”. The closest prior art of record, Meng et al. (WO 2021016942)(see English Translation of text), see rejection under 35 U.S.C. 103, above, singularly or in combination fails to anticipate the above underlined limitations obvious, together with all the other limitations of the claims.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Feng et al. (US 2015/0355515), discloses a display device (Fig. 1) comprising the pixel comprises at least three subpixels having different colors (Fig. 1, (RGB), two scanning lines are arranged between two adjacent rows of subpixels (Fig. 1, (Gate 2 and Gate 3), two columns of subpixels are arranged between two data lines (Fig. 1, (see first row, columns 2 and3, (G and B), are arranged between data line (Fig. 1, (Data1 and Data2), and in a same row of subpixels, the subpixels electrically coupled to a same data line have at least two colors (Fig. 1, (First row of subpixels, subpixels R and G are connected to same data line Data1); in adjacent rows of subpixels (Fig. 1, first and second rows) at least two subpixels electrically coupled to a same data line have a same color (R in first row, and R in second row, are both coupled to the same data line Data1).
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