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 .
Detailed Office Action
1. Claims 1-12 are pending. Claims 1, 11, and 12 are independent.
Claim Rejection – 35 U.S.C. §102
2. 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.
3. Claims 1 and 11-12 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Akiyama (US 2008/0117481 A1).
Regarding claim 1, Akiyama discloses an image processing system (multifunction apparatus 1 in Fig. 1; para 0051) comprising:
one or a plurality of processors (CPU 11 in Fig. 1) configured to:
in an operation mode (an automatic conveyance and reading function, para 0063 and Fig. 2) in which an image is scanned from a document being transported by a transport mechanism (Fig. 2, para 0063-0064),
in a case where transport of the document by the transport mechanism is
stopped (para 0175-0176) and then the transport is restarted before scanning of the document by the transport mechanism is ended (para 0121, 0131-0137), create a scanned image of the document by using a document image scanned before stop of the transport and a document image scanned by restart of the transport, based on information indicating a movement of the document at a time of stopping the transport.
Claims 11 and 12 are rejected for the reason given for claim 1, for being corresponding to rejected apparatus claim 1.
Allowable Subject Matter
4. Claims 2-10 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.
Pertinent Prior Art
5. The prior art or art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Akiyama (US 2008/0117481 A1, US 7889400)
Akahane (US 8488212)
Jones (US 7301680)
Inukai (US 2009/0316233 A1), see abstract, Figs. 5A-7B, document scanning interrupted due to memory-full signal received (Fig. 7A)
Kinoshita (US 2024/0406326 A1), Figs. 4-9, detects boundary position of the document in the width direction, document being conveyed.
Akahane (US 8547585)
Conclusion
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