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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 .
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments with respect to claim(s) 06/26/2026 have been considered but are moot because the new ground of rejection does not rely on any reference applied in the prior rejection of record for any teaching or matter specifically challenged in the argument.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 1, 9 and claims bellow are ejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over D1 US 20220374366 A1.
Regarding claims bellow D1 teaches
1, 9 A device enabling data transmission in a network communication, the device comprising:
a plurality of sensors(106 and 102), wherein the plurality of sensors comprises a first sensor(102), a second sensor(one of the 106) and a third sensor (second one of the 106 or IMU or ultrasound), [0002]
a processor(122) configured for:
receiving, data sensed by each sensor of the plurality of sensors;[0054]
stripping, a predefined data from the data received from each of the sensor;[0024]
wherein stripping the predefined data comprises stripping a first line of data from the data received from each sensor;[0060](lidar and camera data include “ start addresses of headers, start addresses of the sensor data, and lengths occupied by the sensor data. ” )
combining, through an encoder each of the predefined data striped from the data received from each of the sensor for obtaining a combined data stream; and[0068+0054+0058]
generating, through the encoder, an output data stream by using the combined data stream.[0054]
it is important to note that the D1 teaches removing headers from the segments of the for example either camera data or Lidar data and then stitching segments of the segments for that sensor. But at the same time [0054] Explicitly teaches fusing LIDAR data with for example camera data. It is clear that and lidar data and each individual camera data will include header and therefore It will be obvious to one of ordinary skills in the art to modify teachings taught by D1 to strip the headers form LIDAR , and individual camera data in order to fuse LIDAR and camera data and at the same time compress the combined data as it is dan for different segments of the image data or lidar data.
2, 10 The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first sensor of the plurality of sensors comprise a Time-of-flight (ToF) sensor[0058], a second sensor of the plurality of sensors comprise a Red Green Blue (RGB) image sensor[0058] and wherein a third sensor of the plurality of sensors comprise an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensor.[0049]
3, 11 The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data comprises a depth data sensed by a first sensor of the plurality of sensors, an image data sensed by a second sensor of the plurality of sensors and, an acceleration and angular velocity data by a third sensor of the plurality of sensors.[0058,0049]
6, 14 The device as claimed in claim 1, comprising:
an encoder configured for encoding the output data stream before transmission.[0049]
7, 15 The device as claimed in claim 1, comprising:
a transmitter configured for transmitting the output data stream to a host processor for reconstructing an image from the output data.[0078]
8. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the device comprises an electronic device comprising a Time-of-Flight (ToF) camera.[0060]
Conclusion
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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