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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 the claim(s) 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) 1-20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Shibahara (US 2017/0111565 A1) in view of DeAngelis (US 2009/0141138 A1).
Claim 1, Shibahara teaches an information processing system comprising:
a terminal device (terminal device 110A; paragraph 0071) including:
a wireless communicator that performs communication through a fifth-generation mobile communication system (fifth generation 5G; paragraph 0262), a sensor including a camera (photographing unit 114; paragraph 0102);
a global navigation satellite system receiver that receives a signal from a global navigation satellite system (position of the camera can be acquired with a GPS sensor in the camera; paragraph 0204), and
a clocking part (clock 121) that receives, as clocking information, a signal from a global navigation satellite system (GPS timepiece is used as clock; paragraph 0113);
a hardware processor that performs communication with the terminal device through the fifth-generation mobile communication system (fifth generation 5G; paragraph 0262); and
a data processor that associates a plurality of pieces of data (timestamp is added, i.e., associated, with image data; paragraph 0079), in a case where a communication delay (delay time is determined; paragraph 0091-0092) between the terminal device and the hardware processor is not more than a predetermined time (if there is no delay between the terminal device 110c and server 120, no adjustment to clock 111a of terminal device is made and the time for image timestamps is identical to the time of clock 111a of the terminal device; see paragraph 0091 and 0057), such that data of the terminal device is data at a time identical to a time of the data of the terminal device (the data time stamp is identical to the time that the image is generated; see paragraph 0079),
but Shibahara is silent regarding wherein the clocking part receives the clocking information from the signal from the global navigation satellite system receiver.
DeAngelis teaches wherein a camera comprises a clocking part (clock in camera control 654; paragraph 0062) receives clocking information from the signal from the global navigation satellite system receiver (GPS time data is inherently encoded in each GPS message sent from a GPS satellite. Synchronization of a clock in camera control 654 of camera 618 can be accomplished using its own GPS receiver; paragraph 0062).
It would have been obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to have used the teaching of DeAngelis with that of Shibahara in order to ensure accurate timekeeping even when a network connection to an external device is unstable.
Claim 2, Shibahara further teaches wherein the terminal device includes a plurality of terminal devices (see multiple cameras; Fig. 12), and the data processor selects a terminal device from among the plurality of terminal devices (processing apparatus 3x101 selects a camera; paragraph 0209), based on positional information regarding each of the plurality of terminal devices obtained from the global navigation satellite system (selection is based on position of a camera, coordinates may be identified by GPS; paragraph 0209, 0262), such that the plurality of data is associated together (see time stamp of images; paragraph 0079).
Claim 3, Shibahara further teaches wherein the plurality of pieces of data includes image data shot by the camera (still or moving image is photographed; paragraph 0095).
Claim 4, Shibahara further teaches wherein the clocking unit part updates the clocking information within the predetermined time (every time a clock time based on the reference is updated, the first terminal device may photograph a subject displaying the updated clock time; paragraph 0054, 0057).
Claim 5, Shibahara further teaches wherein the plurality of pieces of data includes image data (still or moving image is photographed; paragraph 0095), and the predetermined time is less than a time for one frame (accuracy of one-hundredth second while an imaging frame rate can be 30 or 60 fps; see paragraph 0057, 0164).
Claim 11, Shibahara further teaches wherein the plurality of pieces of data includes image data shot by the camera (still or moving image is photographed; paragraph 0095).
Claim 12, Shibahara further teaches wherein the clocking part updates the clocking information within the predetermined time (every time a clock time based on the reference is updated, the first terminal device may photograph a subject displaying the updated clock time; paragraph 0054, 0057).
Claim 13, Shibahara further teaches wherein the plurality of pieces of data includes image data, and the predetermined time is less than a time for one frame (accuracy of one-hundredth second while an imaging frame rate can be 30 or 60 fps; see paragraph 0057, 0164).
Claim 14, Shibahara further teaches wherein the clocking part updates the clocking information within the predetermined time (every time a clock time based on the reference is updated, the first terminal device may photograph a subject displaying the updated clock time; paragraph 0054, 0057).
Claim 15, Shibahara further teaches wherein the plurality of pieces of data includes image data, and the predetermined time is less than a time for one frame (accuracy of one-hundredth second while an imaging frame rate can be 30 or 60 fps; see paragraph 0057, 0164).
Claim 16, Shibahara further teaches wherein the plurality of pieces of data includes image data, and the predetermined time is less than a time for one frame (accuracy of one-hundredth second while an imaging frame rate can be 30 or 60 fps; see paragraph 0057, 0164).
Claims 6-10 and 17-20 are analyzed and rejected as claims requiring a non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable information processing program (see paragraph 0013 of Shibahara) for causing a computer to execute the functions of the system of claims 1-5 and 11-14, respectively.
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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/CHIAWEI CHEN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2637