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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.
Claims 10 and 21 are 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.
Claims 10 and 21 recite the limitation "the third chromaticity and the fourth chromaticity correction model…". There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
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.
It is unclear which chromaticity correction model construction is being referenced here, as one model (see claim 1) is based on the reference substance, and the other model (see claim 10) is based on a third and fourth chromaticity. Additionally, claim 18 references an initial singular correction model, then later references two constructed correction models, and lastly a ‘final correction model’, without properly distinguishing each model.
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.
Claim(s) 1, 19 and 24 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Shen et al. (CN 102156102, hereafter referred to as Shen).
Regarding claims 1 and 19, Shen teaches a water quality testing method/device, comprising: obtaining a test sample (see para. 0010, ‘sample water’), the test sample comprising a target test substance; determining a reference substance corresponding to the test sample (see para. 0010, ‘optical pure water’); constructing a chromaticity correction model based on the reference substance (see para. 0011, ‘establishing the relationship between chromatic value difference value with the standard method’); acquiring a first chromaticity (see para. 0011 and 0012, ‘then according to the standard method to measure chromaticity value Ci’) of the test sample under a first environment; determining a second chromaticity of the test sample under a second environment (see para. 0014, selecting ‘a different length of the absorption cell’); based on the first chromaticity and the chromaticity correction model; and determining a concentration of the target test substance based on the second chromaticity (see claim 3, ‘the chrominance C and the lengths D of the absorbing pools are multiplied to relate to the chromatic aberration value’).
Regarding claim 24, Shen further teaches an image acquisition module 5, configured to acquire color image information of the reference substance under a second environment; and acquire color image information of the reference substance and color image information of the target test substance under a first environment; an image processing module 6, configured to perform color image information processing on the color image information of the reference substance and the color image information of the target test substance according to a preset image algorithm, and perform chromaticity extraction on the processed color image information, wherein the image acquisition module comprises a camera, a cell phone, a camera, a scanner or a monitoring apparatus (absorption cell).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-5, 7, 12, 14-16, 20, 22, 23, 26 and 27 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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/JAMEL E WILLIAMS/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2855
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