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`17/038,708
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`09/30/2020
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`Hiroshi YAHATA
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`P61564
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`9707
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`125331
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`7590
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`01/20/2022
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`Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation
`of America c/o Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
`1950 Roland Clarke Place
`Reston, VA 20191
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`EXAMINER
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`ZHAO, DAQUAN
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`ART UNIT
`2484
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`PAPER NUMBER
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`NOTIFICATION DATE
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`DELIVERY MODE
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`01/20/2022
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`ELECTRONIC
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`Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding.
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`gbpatent @ gbpatent.com
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`PTOL-90A (Rev. 04/07)
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`Disposition of Claims*
`1-8 is/are pending in the application.
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`Claim(s)
`5a) Of the above claim(s) 3 and 6-8 is/are withdrawn from consideration.
`() Claim(s)__ is/are allowed.
`Claim(s) 1-2 and 4-5 is/are rejected.
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`) © Claim(s)___is/are objected to.
`C] Claim(s
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`Application Papers
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`Applicant may not request that any objection to the drawing(s) be held in abeyance. See 37 CFR 1.85(a).
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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).
`Certified copies:
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`1.2 Certified copies of the priority documents have been received.
`2.¥} Certified copies of the priority documents have beenreceived in Application No. 15/278,582.
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`Notice of References Cited (PTO-892)
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`Information Disclosure Statement(s) (PTO/SB/08a and/or PTO/SB/08b)
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`Paper No(s)/Mail Date 12/29/2020.
`U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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`3) (J Interview Summary (PTO-413)
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`PTOL-326 (Rev. 11-13)
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`Office Action Summary
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`Part of Paper No./Mail Date 20220114
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`Application No.
`Applicant(s)
`17/038,708
`YAHATAetal.
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`Office Action Summary Art Unit|AIA (FITF) StatusExaminer
`DAQUAN ZHAO
`2484
`Yes
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`Status
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`1) Responsive to communication(s) filed on 12/20/2021.
`C} A declaration(s)/affidavit(s) under 37 CFR 1.130(b) was/werefiled on
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`2a)L) This action is FINAL. 2b)¥)This action is non-final.
`3)02 An election was madeby the applicant in responseto a restriction requirement set forth during the interview
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`4\0) Since this application is in condition for allowance except for formal matters, prosecution as to the merits is
`closed in accordance with the practice under Exparte Quayle, 1935 C.D. 11, 453 O.G. 213.
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`Application/Control Number: 17/038,708
`Art Unit: 2484
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`DETAILED ACTION
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`Notice of Pre-AlA or AIA Status
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`1.
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`The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013,
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`is being examined
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`under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA.
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`Election/Restrictions
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`2.
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`Applicant's election without traverse of claims 1-2 and 4-5 in the reply filed on
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`12/20/2021 is acknowledged.
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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`3.
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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)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patentissued under section 151, orinan
`application for patent published or deemed published under s ection 122(b), in which the
`patentor application, as the case maybe, names anotherinventor and waseffectively filed
`before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
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`4.
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`Claims 1-2 and 4-5 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being described by
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`Yamamoto et al (US 2016/0134832).
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`For claim 1, Yamamoto et al teach a decoding system that decaxies a video
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`stream, which is encoded video information, comprising:
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`a decacier that acquires the video steam anc generates decoded video
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`information by decoding the video siream (e.g. figure 2 or figure 4, “decoding
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`processing’);
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`a maximum hurinance information acquirer (¢.9. figure 2, “Pararneter extraction
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`Grom SEQ") thal acquires, in a case where a dyriamic range of luminance of the video
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`stream is a second dynamic range that is wider than a first dynamic range, maximum
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`luminance information indicating the maxinum fuminarice of the video strearn from the
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`yideo stream (6.9. paragraphs 105-107: “in such a case the reproduce device 2 outputs,
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`together with ihe data of the HDR viceo, data representing ine brightness characteristic
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`of the masier HDR video to the display device 3°” HDA video has greater luminance than
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`the STD video, so HOM has the Maximum fuminance in these two type of video}: and
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`an outouiter that cutouts the decoded video information along with the maximum
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`luminance information (2.g. see above},
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`wherein,
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`in a case where the dynamic range of luminance of the video stream is
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`expressed by the maximum luminance of all pictures in the video strearn as the
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`maximum luminance information (6.9. figure 13, Each “Gip” is a AV stream, paragraph
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`107: “. when the display device 3 includes an HDR monitor, ihe reproduction device 2
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`outputs the data of the HDA vicieo..."),
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`the ouiputier cutouts the decoded video information, along with the maximum
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`luminance infarmation indicating the maxirnum luminance of all pictures in the video
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`stream (&.¢. paragraphs 105-107: “In such a case the reproduce device 2 ouiputs,
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`together with the data of the HDR video, dala renresenting the brightness characteristic
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`ci ihe master HDA video to the display device 2’ HDA video has greater Luminance than
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`the STD video, so HDF has the Maxirnum lurninance in these two type of video).
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`Claim 4 is relecied for the same reasons as discussed in claim 1 above.
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`For claim 2, Yamamoto ef al teach a decoding system thal decodes a video
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`strearn, which is encoded video information, comprising:
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`a decoder that acquires the video steam and generates decoded video
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`information by decoding the video siream (e.g. figure 2 or figure 4, “decoding
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`processing’):
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`a maximum hurinance information acquirer (¢.9. figure 2, “Pararneter extraction
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`Grom SER’)
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`that acquires, in a case where a dynamic range of luminance of the video
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`stream is a second dynamic range that is wider than 4 first dynamic range, maximum
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`luminance information indicating the maximum fuminance of the wideo stream from the
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`video stream (¢.g. paragraphs 105-107: “in such a case the reproduce device 2 outputs,
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`tagether wilh ihe data af the HDR video, dala representing ihe brighiness characteristle
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`of ihe masier HDR video to the display device 2° HD video has greater luminance than
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`the STD video, so HOM has the Maximum fuminance in these two type of video); and
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`an cutpuiter that outputs the cecodec video information along with the maximum
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`luminance information (e.g. see above},
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`wherein,
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`in a case where the dynamic range of kaninance of the video strearn is
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`expressed by maximum luminance of all pictures in the video stream and maximum
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`luminance for each of groups made up of one or a plurality of pictures inclucied in the
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`video stream, as the maximum luminance information (e.g. figure 13, Each “Clip” is a
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`AY strearn, paragraon 107: "...wnen the display device S includes an HDA monitor, the
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`reproduction device 2 outputs the data of the HDA vileo...”),
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`the outpuiter outouis the decoded video information, along with the maximum
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`luminance information indicating the maxirnum lurninance of all pictures in the video
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`slrearn and the maximum luminance for each of the groups (e.g. figure 13, each “clin”
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`has an “AY stream’).
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`Cigim 5 is relected for the same reason as discussed in claim 2 above.
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