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`16/ 1 84,309
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`11/08/2018
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`Hiroyuki SATOH
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`AOYAP0203US
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`7743
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`MARK D. SARALINO (PAN)
`RENNER, OTTO, BOISSELLE & SKLAR, LLP
`1621 EUCLID AVENUE
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`CLEVELAND, OH 441 15
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`DESK JEAN WICEL
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`ART UNIT
`2422
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`PAPER NUMBER
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`NOTIFICATION DATE
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`DELIVERY MODE
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`05/06/2019
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`ELECTRONIC
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`0/7709 A0170” Summary
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`Application No.
`16/184,309
`Examiner
`JEAN w DESIR
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`Applicant(s)
`SATOH et al.
`Art Unit
`2422
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`AIA (FITF) Status
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`Status
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`1). Responsive to communication(s) filed on 11/8/2018.
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`2a)D This action is FINAL.
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`Priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119
`12). Acknowledgment is made of a claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a)-(d) or (f).
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`Application/Control Number: 16/184,309
`Art Unit: 2422
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`DETAILED ACTION
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`1.
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`The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined
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`under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA.
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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`2.
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`The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that
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`form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
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`A person shall be entitled to a patent unless —
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`(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed
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`publication, or in public use, on sale or otherwise available to the public
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`before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
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`3.
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`Claims 1-7 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by
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`Kuppens et al (WO 2010/026162 A1 )).
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`Kuppens discloses:
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`Claim 1:
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`an irnager to perform an imaging operation according to a synchronization signai
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`{see page 2 tines iG—izfi, page i tines 8&3);
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`a receiver to receive a time code signai including time code information and a
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`eynchronization pattern for detecting the tirne code information from another imaging
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`apparatus {see page ‘i tines i3-3?, page 2 iines iii-25};
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`a synchronization signai generator to generate the synchronization signai co as
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`to be synchronized with a tinting oi the synchronization pattern ineioded in the time code
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`eignai received {see page ? iinee i‘i—BE); anti
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`a time cede eentreiier te g6it€f€it€
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`a time cede patted en the eynchrenizatien
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`eignaS and the time code intermatien received (see page 7 Sine 32 to page 8 Sine 20,
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`page 12 Sine ti} te page “iii Sine t2):
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`Claim 2: a eieek adjuster te adjust a peried et a eSeek eignai, wherein the
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`eynchrenizatien eignai generater generates; the eynchrpnizatipn eignai passed en the
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`eieek eighaS (see page i2 Sine t7 tc page 13 iine '12, page 7 iinee 14—36), and the deck
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`adjuster adjusts the period at the eieek eignaS based on a detectien intervai at the
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`eynehrenizatien pattern (see page ”i2 iine i? to page 13 Sine 12)
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`Ciaim 3: wherein the time cede Cfli‘iit’fiiiei“ has; a timer te eennt an eSapeed time teee
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`page 9 iinee Ei—ST, and the time cede eentreiSer generates; the time cede patted en the
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`time cede at a time when the time cede eignai has been iaet received and a eeunt vaStie
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`et the timer in a eaee where the receiver deee net receive the time eede eignei item the
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`ahether imaging apparatna (see page 9 iine 21 te page tit Sine 25).
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`Claim 4: wherein the time cede eignai ihpitidee a iengittidinai time cede (LTC) signaS
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`deiined by an 8MPTE 12 standard {see page 2 iinee 2%28, page 1
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`iinee 842),
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`Claim 5:
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`an imager to perterm an imaging eperatien accerding to a eynchrenizatien eignai
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`{See page 2 Sine-e iG—i7, page 1 iihee 8~23);
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`a time cede eignai generater te generate a time cede eignai ineStiding time cede
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`intermatien and a eynehrenizatien pattern for deteeting the time eede intermetien (see
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`page 5 iinee i321 page 8 iinee 1665, page t3 itne 22 tp page t4- iine 19);
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`a tranemittet te transmit the time cede eignai tc ahether imaging apparatus; {eee
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`page 6 iine i6 to page :7 tine 12); and
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`Application/Control Number: 16/184,309
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`a synchronization signai generator to generate the synchronization signai so as
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`to be synchronized with a timing oi the synohronization pattern ineioded in the time node
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`signat transmitted (see page “:7 iine "iii to page 8 iine "i5, page 2 tines iGuBS, page "i
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`iines 1&29).
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`Claim 6 is rejected for the same reasons as claim 4.
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`Claim 7 is rejected for the same reasons as claims 1, 5.
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`4.
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`Claim 7 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Yoshizawa
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`(US 2014/0085419).
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`Yoshizawa discloses:
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`Claim 7:
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`a first imaging apparatus (see Fig. 5) to
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`perform an imaging operation according to a first virieo synchronization signai
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`{see Fig. 5 items 3t, 32, 37; paragraph 4, Fig. 6 item 55};
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`transmit a time code signai inoinding time oocie information and a synchronization
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`pattern for detection oi the time code iniorntation (see paragraphs i4~i 5. 33, 38439? 445,
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`4i i; and
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`generate the first video synchronization signai so as to be synchronized with the
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`synchronization pattern inoinded in the time code signai {see Fig. 6 item 55, paragraphs
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`i4~15,38—39,4t);and
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`a second imaging apparatus (see Fig. 5) to
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`perform the imaging operation aoooroing to a second video synchronization
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`signat {see Fig. 5 items 31, 32, 37, paragraph 4. Fig. 6 item 55); and
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`generate the eeeend videe synchrehizaiieh sigma: er: as te be Synchronized with
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`the synchronization pattern ineiuded in the time cede signai received tram the first
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`imaging apparatus (see Fig. 6 item 55, paragraphs 1445, 3859, 41),
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`Conclusion
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`/JWD/
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`4/26/2019
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`/JEFFEREY F HAROLD/
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`Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2422
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