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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 1 – 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Lee et al. (US Pub. No. 2024/0021128 A1).
As to claims 1 and 8, Lee shows a display driving (Fig. 1 and para. 33) device and associated methodology (Fig. 3 and para. 63), comprising: a processor 110/920 (Figs. 2 and 9 and paras. 44, 45 and 113); and a memory 930 storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the display driving device (Fig. 9 and para. 115) to: provide control data (TE/touch data/environmental data, etc., paras. 47 and 54) and input display data having a first frequency (Fig. 1 and paras. 40 and 41), wherein the input display data comprises at least one first display data for displaying in at least one first display area 12 of a display screen and at least one second display data for displaying in at least one second display area 11 of the display screen (Fig. 1 and paras. 40 and 41), and wherein the control data indicates that display data with a lower refresh rate is required for the at least one first display area and display data with a higher refresh rate is required for the at least one second display area (Figs. 5A, 5B and 6A – 6C and paras. 47, 54, 84 – 86 and 92); perform a first format conversion on the at least one first display data to generate at least one converted first display data having a second frequency (Figs. 5A, 5B and 6A – 6C and paras. 47, 54, 84 – 86 and 92); perform a second format conversion on the at least one second display data to generate at least one converted second display data having the second frequency (Figs. 5A, 5B and 6A – 6C and paras. 47, 54, 84 – 86 and 92); combine the at least one converted first display data and the at least one converted second display data to generate output display data having the second frequency (Figs. 5A, 5B and 6A – 6C and paras. 47, 54, 84 – 86 and 92); and provide the output display data to the display screen for displaying (Figs. 5A, 5B and 6A – 6C and paras. 47, 54, 84 – 86 and 92); wherein the second frequency is N times the first frequency, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2 (paras. 86, 92 and 93).
As to claims 2 and 9, Lee shows that the display driving device is further configured to perform the first format conversion on the at least one first display data by: replicating each frame of each of the at least one first display data N times (i.e. operating at a lower frequency/refresh rate, Figs. 5A, 5B and 6A – 6C and paras. 47, 54, 84 – 86 and 92).
As to claims 3 and 10, Lee shows that the display driving device is further configured to perform the second format conversion on the at least one second display data by: dividing each frame of each of the at least one second display data into N frames (i.e. operating at a higher frequency/refresh rate, Figs. 5A, 5B and 6A – 6C and paras. 47, 54, 84 – 86 and 92).
As to claims 4 and 11, Lee shows that the display driving device is further configured to combine the at least one converted first display data and the at least one converted second display data by: performing, for the at least one converted first display data and the at least one converted second display data, the following operation: reading a frame of each of the at least one converted first display data and a corresponding frame of each of the at least one converted second display data sequentially to form a frame of the output display data (i.e. producing a composite display, Figs. 5A, 5B and 6A – 6C and paras. 47, 54, 84 – 86 and 92).
As to claims 5 and 12, Lee shows that the first frequency is 30 Hz and the second frequency is 60 Hz (paras. 92 and 93).
As to claims 17 and 20, Lee shows that the display driving device is further configured to perform the first format conversion on the at least one first display data by: replicating each frame of each of the at least one first display data N times (i.e. operating at a lower frequency/refresh rate, Figs. 5A, 5B and 6A – 6C and paras. 47, 54, 84 – 86 and 92).
As to claim 18, Lee shows that the display driving device is further configured to perform the second format conversion on the at least one second display data by: dividing each frame of each of the at least one second display data into N frames (i.e. operating at a higher frequency/refresh rate, Figs. 5A, 5B and 6A – 6C and paras. 47, 54, 84 – 86 and 92).
As to claim 19, Lee shows that the display driving device is further configured to combine the at least one converted first display data and the at least one converted second display data by: performing, for the at least one converted first display data and the at least one converted second display data, the following operation: reading a frame of each of the at least one converted first display data and a corresponding frame of each of the at least one converted second display data sequentially to form a frame of the output display data (i.e. producing a composite display, Figs. 5A, 5B and 6A – 6C and paras. 47, 54, 84 – 86 and 92).
As to claim 6, Lee shows a display system comprising a display driving device according to claim1 and a display screen (see rejection above).
As to claim 13, Lee shows that the display driving device is further configured to perform the first format conversion on the at least one first display data by: replicating each frame of each of the at least one first display data N times (i.e. operating at a lower frequency/refresh rate, Figs. 5A, 5B and 6A – 6C and paras. 47, 54, 84 – 86 and 92).
As to claim 14, Lee shows that the display driving device is further configured to perform the second format conversion on the at least one second display data by: dividing each frame of each of the at least one second display data into N frames (i.e. operating at a higher frequency/refresh rate, Figs. 5A, 5B and 6A – 6C and paras. 47, 54, 84 – 86 and 92).
As to claim 15, Lee shows that the display driving device is further configured to combine the at least one converted first display data and the at least one converted second display data by: performing, for the at least one converted first display data and the at least one converted second display data, the following operation: reading a frame of each of the at least one converted first display data and a corresponding frame of each of the at least one converted second display data sequentially to form a frame of the output display data (i.e. producing a composite display, Figs. 5A, 5B and 6A – 6C and paras. 47, 54, 84 – 86 and 92).
As to claim 16, Lee shows that the first frequency is 30 Hz and the second frequency is 60 Hz (paras. 92 and 93).
As to claim 7, Lee shows that the device is mounted on a vehicle (para. 133).
CONCLUSION
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