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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) below is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Maryfield (20160290765).
Referring to claim 1, Maryfield an imaging rangefinder capable of being adjustably mount on a sighting telescope (see figure 1C and 2B), comprising a power supply (see figure 11B Ref 1142), a control module electrically connected to the power supply (see figure 11B Ref 1138), an imaging module electrically connected to the control module (see figure 11B Ref 1146), a ranging imaging module electrically connected to the control module (see paragraph 103 note the RDA includes a laser rangefinder also see figure 11A Ref 1122), and a display module electrically connected to the control module (see figure 11B note Ref 1144 and 1148), and an eyepiece system showing an image shown by the display module (see figure 11B note the light bar that is connected to the scope), wherein an image from the sighting telescope is transmitted to the control module via the imaging module (see figure 9 and paragraph 91-92), the image shown by the display module comprises the image from the sighting telescope (see figure 9), an image from the ranging imaging module (see figure 9 Ref 902), and ranging information and ranging aiming point from the ranging imaging module (see figure 9 note Ref 902 also see 924).
Referring to claim 8, Maryfield shows the display module comprises a display driver board (see figure 11B Ref 1144) and a display screen mounted on the display driver board (see figure 11B Ref 1148), the display driver board is electrically connected to the control module (see figure 11B Ref 1138 and 1144), and a data of the control module is read and sent to the display screen for display (see figure 9).
Referring to claim 9, Maryfield shows the image and data shown on the display screen are refracted and turned by the eyepiece system, and then projected from the imaging rangefinder along an optical path of the sighting telescope (see figure 2C also see figure 9 for the displayed image).
Referring to claim 10, Maryfield shows the eyepiece system comprises a second reflecting system and a plurality of lenses (see figure 2C and figure 2D).
Referring to claim 12, Maryfield shows the imaging rangefinder further comprised a housing which accommodates the power supply, the control module, the imaging module, the ranging imaging module and the eyepiece system, the housing is connected with the sighting telescope by a first adjusting element provided inside the housing, and the housing is rotatable relative to the first adjusting element to adjust a position of the imaging module relative to the sighting telescope, so that an optical axis of the imaging rangefinder and an optical axis of the sighting telescope are coaxial (see figure 2B).
Referring to claim 15, Maryfield shows a sighting apparatus comprising a sighting telescope and an imaging rangefinder connected with the sighting telescope, wherein the imaging rangefinder is an imaging rangefinder according to claim 1 (see figure 2B and the rejection of claim 1).
Referring to claim 16, Maryfield shows A method for adjusting an aiming base point of a sighting apparatus comprising a sighting telescope and an imaging rangefinder according to claim 1 connected with the sighting telescope, wherein the method comprises: controlling the control module through buttons provided on the housing; and moving a position of a display icon of the display module under the control module in order to move an aiming point of the imaging rangefinder shown in the display module to a center of a sight radius of the sighting telescope, so that the aiming point of the imaging rangefinder coincides with the center of the sight radius of the sighting telescope (see figure 2B also see figures 5a-5d and figure 9).
Referring to claim 17, Maryfield shows a gun and a sighting apparatus mounted on the gun, wherein the sighting apparatus is a sighting apparatus according to claim 15 (see figures 1a-1d and paragraphs 9-10).
Referring to claim 18, Maryfield shows the method comprises: adjusting an aiming point of the imaging rangefinder to coincide with a center of a sight radius of the sighting telescope; adjusting the center of sight radius of the sighting telescope to coincide with a trajectory of the gun, so that the sighting apparatus and the gun are zeroed at a certain distance, and adjusting mechanisms of the sighting telescope is locked; correcting distance and windage by controlling the aiming point of the imaging rangefinder on the display module by buttons provided on the housing; and returning the aiming point of the imaging rangefinder back to the center of the aiming base line of the sighting telescope that has been locked after hitting the target to achieve a second zeroing of the sighting device (see figure 5a-5d also see paragraph 80-84).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-7, 11, 14, and 19 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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/LUKE D RATCLIFFE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3645