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`14/688,783
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`04/16/2015
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`Eiichi Hatae
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`Seed IP Law Group LLPflDanasonic
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`Application/Control Number: 14/688,783
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`Art Unit: 2483
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`The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file
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`provisions of the AIA.
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`DETAIL ACTION
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`Priority
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`Acknowledgment is made of applicant's claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. 119(a)-(d). The
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
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`In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and
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`103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis for
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`the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale
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`supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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`The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections
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`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.
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`Claim 5-14 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over over LEE et al (US
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`20110285846 A1) in view of Hundal (US 20050197061 A1).
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`Regarding claim 5, LEE discloses a monitoring system jag. Fifi. 1} {toms-rising: a piurality of
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`cameras each including an imager leg. Fla. ‘i: 21,2123] and a DECT {Digitai Enhanced Cordless
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`Teiecommunicaticns) corripilant cornrriunicator Reg. 14]; and a DECT rreaster devise jag. its} that, in
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`operation leg. Fifi. 3; monitering operation}, pen‘ontas wireless comma;nir.:atlon leg. Fig. 1; 14; [002131
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`with the plurality oi cameras according to a DECT ccrnmunicatloris protest): jag. PEG. 1; {001?}; eg.
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`netwerk ereteeei]. wherein the DEBT master device, in eeeretien {eggi EEG. 3; menitering the areal
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`receives a monitor diseiay request hag. PEG. 2 and 3; eg: a esteetieh area} via a wireiess router {1411
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`from a 3martphone {eg. are '2'} thatL3 oennec:ed teemebii-0 shone nehiverir te communicate with 0t her
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`mobiie teiephones tag: EEG. 3 and 9; egg: 12; {6323}; mehiie {535395183}, and transmits an image request
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`to the piuraiity‘ of cameras tag. EEG: 3; $3]; the pluraiity of earneras, in response to the image request
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`from the DECT master device, sen-Ci a pluraiity of images respegt veiy to the DECT master devi ee {8. g
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`EEG. 3, 4, and iii; {$3894 and 24]; rag. images from fat-23}; and the DECT master devise, wt:-enr
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`the piuraiity 0t irriages r'espeetiveiy from the pluraiity of camera tag. EEG. 6}; forms one rriuitioie
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`age mentited-:mage {eg FiG sane “amthat ineiuusesthe pitiraiity of images in rrruitieie segments of the
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`rriuitipiesegmehted image fang. G23] and transmits the muitipie~ segrrtented irrtege via the wireiess router
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`to the smartphone tdi dispiay or: the smartpriene tag. EEG. it}; (34}.
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`Aithough LEE disei es sai'3.igitai Enhanced GOl‘ETii'iiUFiCSTOi'QELTMBSTGT device tort‘iranrcares
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`with phones, it is noted that LEE differs to the present invention in that LEE fails to i‘iisdidse the phone is a
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`fixed teiepnone with oerdiess hendset,
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`However, Hundei (LES stream was? er; teachesthe weli know:3 oericeot ei 3 DEGT maste:
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`device [eg FEGURE 4; at {t} performing wireiess communication tag. reset}; wireiess semmunioetien}
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`with one or more DEGT cordless handsets tag. 431} according to the DECT oemmrinioeiions preiooel
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`tag. EEG. s; {sees}; prettiest} and is connected to a fixed teieehene nehverk tag. FEGURE 4; {@338};
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`eg: eerdiessfwireiess radio iinttje comma: ioeto-witi3 other fixed teiephones tang: muitieie 433}.
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`it wotiici have been obvious to a person oie rid nar" ski il in the art before the effectiveetiiing date of
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`theni nveit3 ion to medii" the i3‘nor- itering svstem disoiseed by LEE te-expieit the we:-l-- known concept of
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`cordiess set teiephone network technique taught by Hundet as above inpros: to provide exchanging
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`data and audio between landiine teiephones and various eieetronie devices [See Hundei; {street},
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`Regarding eiaim 5, LEE further discloses the DEBT master device, at’ter transmitting the
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`muitipie-segmenteo image to the smartphene for display when receiving a dispiay request directed to
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`one of the muitiple segments of the muitipie—segmented image irem the smartphone tang. EEG: 3i,
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`transmits one of the piureiity of images corresponding to the requested one of the i‘nultinie segments as e
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`eingie image to the smertphone tor dispiay on the smartphohe Leg. Fifi, Q and 1G}.
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`Regerciing oiaim “‘3, LEE further discloses the DECT master device, when receiving the dispiay
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`request directed to one of the multipie segments of the muitiple—segmented image tog, Fifi-3i. 2 and 31,
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`generates the singie image Lisihg image data of the one of the piureiity of images corresponding to the
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`requested one of the multipie segments and transmits the singie image to the smertphene hang. Fit?“ 6, e
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`and to},
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`Regarding cieim 8, LEE further distzlosee the DECT master device, when receiving the dispiey
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`request directed to ore of the multipie segrreents oi the muitlpleeegmehted image [e.g. Fifi. 3], stops
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`forwarding irriege data trom the oerrierets) other than the earnera that images the requested one of the
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`piuraiity of images, and torwero‘s image data from the camera that images the requested one of the
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`piuraiity of images as the singie image to the srrtei‘tphohe Leg. Fifi. ‘i, 4 and 5; seieeting imaging
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`oevioe to take images}.
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`Regareing ciaim 9, LEE further discloses each of pluraiity of cameras further inciudes ‘1 wireiess
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`LAN communicator tang. PEG. 1 and it}; 14; [931?3},
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`Regarding claims 10-14, these claims are the method of the apparatus version as applied to
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`claims 5-9 respectively above, wherein the method performs the same limitations cited in claims 5-9, the
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`rejection of which are incorporated herein.
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