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Status of Claims
Claims 1-5, 7-10, 12-16, and 18-20 are currently pending and have been examined in this application. This action is FINAL.
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments, see Remarks, pg. 9-10, filed 09/22/2025, with respect to the rejection(s) of claim(s) 1-5, 7-10, 12-16, and 18-20 under 35 USC 101 have been fully considered and are persuasive. Therefore, the rejection has been withdrawn. However, the amended claims are rejected under 35 USC 112(a). The amendment to independent claims 1 and 12 “control the vehicle for automatic driving according to the coordinate information of the current location point of the vehicle,” overcomes the 35 USC 101 rejection but introduces new matter into the claims and raises a 35 USC 112(a) rejection.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Claims 1-5, 7-10, 12-16, and 18-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Claims 1 and 12 include the limitation “control the vehicle for automatic driving according to the coordinate information of the current location point of the vehicle,” and introduces new matter. While para. [0002] and [0024] of the specification directs the invention towards automatic driving of a vehicle, the specification does not disclose controlling a vehicle based on the determined coordinate information and current location of the vehicle. The newly added limitation is not supported by the specification and therefore constitutes new matter.
Dependent claims 2-5, 7-10, 13-16, and 18-20 are dependent on claims 1 or 12 and are rejected for the same reasons.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure or directed to the state of the art is listed on the enclosed PTO-892.
The following is a brief description for relevant prior art that was cited but not applied:
Nabatchian (US 10859684 B1) discloses output of camera-LIDAR calibration can be a 6 degrees-of-freedom transformation matrix consisting of a translation and a rotation matrix that can map one space to the other one. For example, a calibration result can include a transformation matrix H, which is configured to, based on an input of a given 3D position in the LIDAR coordinate system, generate a corresponding 2D position, in a 2D image coordinate system (e.g. a XY planar coordinate system) as seen by the camera sensor. The transformation matrix H can include a rotation matrix R and a translation matrix T.
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/M.G.H./Examiner, Art Unit 3668
/JAMES J LEE/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 3668
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