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Again, misses the point
Authored by: PJ on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 09:20 AM EST
Someone should probably explain that very simply
in an amicus brief.

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Still misses the point
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 10:42 AM EST
"Nope. All the computer's doing is turning lights in a grid off and
on."

Yes.

"I could do exactly the same by hand with an old Light-Brite set, moving
lit pegs one at a time to light or unlight a particular pixel to create the
image of the page bouncing."

No, you couldn't. Nobody watching would say you made the page bounce. Note
that I'm not arguing that this is a reasonable patent, just that that particular
task can't be done by hand in the manner you describe. If it doesn't happen in
real-time, it didn't happen.

"It'd be much slower than the computer, but it'd be exactly the same
process."

And that's the point. "Exactly the same process" but "slower
than the computer" = "dead austronaut in space shuttle at bottom of
crater." So, you're still not correctly making the point that the computer
(or something like the computer for all the pedants out there) is never
necessary.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Again, misses the point
Authored by: jjs on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 02:30 PM EST
Anyone who's seen a traffic direction signal in the last, oh,
20 years, has seen the exact same technique - you turn on one
set of lights (say on the right) and turn off one set of
lights (on the left). That creates the illusion of a moving
arrow. Now you just program the system to, when it detects
the next set of lights is out of the display, to reverse.

Been done for over 20 years in the highway business. Oh,
right - this time they did it "on the computer."

---
(Note IANAL, I don't play one on TV, etc, consult a practicing attorney, etc,
etc)

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