Applicant Initiated Interview Request Form
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`Application No.: 15/182 448
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`First Named Applicant: Hiroyuki Matsumoto
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`Examiner: Sihar A Karwan
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`Art Unit: 2422
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`Status of Application: Non-final
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`Tentative Participants:
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`(2) Blake Kumabe (68,240)
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`Proposed Date of Interview: 10/24/19
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`Proposed Time: 1:00 PM EDT (AM/PM)
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`1/Fig. 14
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`Brief Description of Argument to be Presented:
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`See next pages.
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`An interview was conducted on the above-identified application on
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`NOTE:
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`This form should be completed and filed by applicant in advance of the interview (see MPEP § 713.01). If this form is
`signed by a registered practitioner not of record, the Office will accept this as an indication that he or she is authorized to
`conduct an interview on behalf of the principal (37 CFR 1.32(a)(3)) pursuant to 37 CFR 1.34. This is not a power of
`attorney to any above named practitioner. See the Instruction Sheet for this form, which is incorporated by reference. By
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`possible. This application will not be delayed from issue because of applicant’s failure to submit a written record of this
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`/Blake K. Kumabe/
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`Blake K. Kumabe
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`68,240
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`In regards to claim 1, Applicant would like to discuss differences between one embodiment of
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`the invention and Wu. In one embodiment, a control system performs a monitoring operation
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`procedure in which a monitoring monitor 26 displays a blank screen, and a microphone array monitors
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`sound. See Figure 14, which is copied below. In response to an abnormal sound being detected (e.g.,
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`sound detected by the microphone array being greater than a threshold value), the monitoring monitor
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`26 displays a voice heat map image in a superimposing manner over the blank screen. Subsequently, a
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`lighting device and a camera device is controlled based on the direction of the sound detected by the
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`microphone array.
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`Wu describes overlaying high sound pressure spots on an image of a test object captured by a
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`camera to indicate the locations from which sounds are emitted. See fl[0003]. Wu also describes
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`visualizing a sound pressure field in 3D space including sound source surfaces. See fl[0017]. Wu does
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`not teach detecting an abnormal sound, and displaying a voice heat map image over a blank screen in
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`response to the abnormal sound being detected.
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`A proposed amendment for claim 1 is provided below for discussion purposes.
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`(Currently Amended) A monitoring system, comprising:
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`generates sound source image information in which the sound parameter
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`is converted into different visual information in step wise according to a comparison between the
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`sound parameter and a plurality of threshold values relating to the level of the sound, and
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`displays the sound source image information on the display using plural
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`indicators and in a superimposed manner for each predetermined unit of pixels configuring the image
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`wherein the plural indicators includes a first indicator that is applied to sound
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`parameters that are within a first range defined by a first threshold value of the plurality of threshold
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`values, and a second indicator that is applied to sound parameters that are within a second range
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