DETAILED ACTION
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-8 are allowed.
Claim 1 is allowed since none of the prior art alone or in combination suggests a display device comprising:
a display panel having a display area and configured to display an image through pixels of a display area;
a fingerprint sensing circuit embedded into the display panel and configured to sense a user’s fingerprint;
a sensor control circuit configured to receiving a temperature sensing signal from a temperature sensing element of the fingerprint sensing circuit, and to generate temperature data in real time; and
a display driving circuit configured to:
receive and store first to (n)th reference temperature information and inspection pattern image data for each temperature range from the outside,
analyze temperature information and a temperature change for the display panel in real time by receiving the temperature data in real time,
select one of the inspection pattern image data based on a comparison result of the temperature information for the display panel and the first to (n)th reference temperature information, and
display the one of the inspection pattern image data on the display panel as an image.
Claim 8 is allowed for similar reasons as claim 1.
Claims 2-7 are allowed for being dependent upon aforementioned independent claim 1.
The closest prior art by Field (US 6,545,500 B1) an inspection method that detects defects in the display panel by inducing a localized temperature change in the display and analyzing the temperature change and temperature information and a temperature change for the display (See abstract).
Further, Pyo (US 2023/0085452 A1) discloses a display method for correcting gamma voltages for a display in response to calculating a temperature difference by comparing a measured temperature and a predetermined reference temperature (See Abstract; ¶ 0090-0097).
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 9-16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
The term “good” in claim 9 is a relative term which renders the claim indefinite. The term “good” is not defined by the claim, the specification does not provide a standard for ascertaining the requisite degree, and one of ordinary skill in the art would not be reasonably apprised of the scope of the invention. Claim 9 recites “inspect whether a display device is good” is not defined by the specification or the claim and is unclear what would render the device as good by the quality analysis device. Claims 10-16 are dependent from independent claim 9 and also stand rejected.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
US 6,033,281 to Toro-Lira
US 2021/0358377 A1 to Higashikawa et al.
US 2005/0179426 A1 to Tanaka et al.
US 2006/0103415 A1 to Tomita
US 2006/0103416 A1 to Miyatake et al.
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