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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 § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claim 18 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Claim 18 recites the limitation "the generating" in line 1. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-17 and 19-20 are allowed.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
Regarding claims 1-17 and 19-20 the prior art of record does not teach a Fourier transform of the target light field, F(H), substantially does not overlap (i) a Fourier transform of a complex conjugate of the target light field, F(H*), (ii) a Fourier transform of the target light field multiplied by the complex conjugate of the target light field, F(HH*), (iii) a Fourier transform of a square of the target light field, F(H²), and (iv) a Fourier transform of a square of the complex conjugate of the light field F(H*2); and the aperture substantially corresponds to F(H) in the Fourier plane. Lee US 2017/0185037 teaches a holographic display system comprising: a light source configured to emit at least partially coherent light; a modulator arranged to be illuminated by the at least partially coherent light and to generate a light field which is a quantised representation of a target light field, H; and a spatial filter delimiting an aperture in a Fourier plane. Kim US 2021/0181678 teaches a Holographic display using fourier analysis and compensation of higher order noise and complex conjugate signals however this still would not provide rational to specifically optimize the Fourier transforms i-iv of the claimed invention.
Conclusion
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