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 § 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 1-20 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 claims 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. Specifically lines 10-12 discloses
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The Examiner has read through the specification and the only part where floating point weights are mentioned is in paragraph 0085
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The part labeled 1 above has support from the original claim language of the parent application 15/247,697 with the original dependent claim 14 which mentions decompressing of floating point weight indices and is considered part of the written description.
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However, neither the original claim 14 nor paragraph 0085 of the specification, nor any other part of the specification provide support the claim language noted as numeral 2 (lines 10-12) above, thus there is no written description to support claim 1 lines 10-12.
Claims 2-16 are rejected due to their dependency on claim 1.
Claims 17 and 19 are rejected as being analogous to claim 1.
Claims 18 and 20 are rejected due to their dependency on rejected base claims.
Note regarding Double Patenting
No double patenting rejection is made in the current office action as none of the parent applications disclose decompressing a second plurality of floating point weights; processing, using the second plurality of floating point weights, the first intermediate data using a second layer of the DCNN to generate first output data. However as noted above there is no support for this limitation in the application, thus any amendments could result in the similar parent application 16/192,419 being applied as a double patenting rejection.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Liu et al. A Versatile Compression Method for Floating-point Data Stream discloses a reducing the size of data to be stored or transferred by using floating point data compression and decompression, but does not go into detail regarding using this with a deep convolution neural network to generate intermediate data using image data.
Please see the attached 892 notice of references cited for additional references.
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/JOHN B STREGE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2669