`Amendment dated March 24, 2010
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`Reply to Office Action of December 24, 2009
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`H-5575
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`Pending Claims
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`REMARKS
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`Claims 1-18 remain pending in this application. Claims 5, 9, 10 and 15 have been
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`amended. No new claims have been added.
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`Claim Objections
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`Claims 5 and 9 are objected to for informalities. Applicants have amended claims 5
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`and 9 as suggested by the Examiner.
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`Claim Rejections Under 35 U.S.C. §§102 and 103
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`Claims 1, 5, 9 and 10 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. §102(b) as being anticipated by
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`Ishiyama (U.S. Pub. No. 2002/0113781). Claims 2-4 and 11-18 are rejected under 35 U.S.C.
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`§103(a) as being unpatentable over Ishiyama in View of Kitagawa (U.S. Patent No.
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`5,844,539). Claims 6 and 8 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. §103(a) as being unpatentable over
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`Ishiyama in View of Shiba et al (U.S. Pub. No. 2004/0258866). Claim 7 is rejected under 35
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`U.S.C. §103(a) as being unpatentable over Ishiyama in View of Akimoto et al (U.S. Pub. No.
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`2002/0000970). The rejections are traversed as follows.
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`Claim 1 is directed to an image display deVice having plural data lines for transferring
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`image data, plural scanning lines arrayed to intersect the plural data lines, and plural pixels
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`corresponding to each of the points Where the plural data lines and plural scanning lines
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`intersect in a display area for displaying an image. According to claim 1, the image display
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`deVice has a first memory storing a first image data in an area outside the display area on a
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