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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.
Claims 1-9 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 pre-AIA the applicant regards as the invention.
Claim 1 recites the phrase: “simulating a MEMS microstructure to generate an object phase image through generation of random matrix superposition, simultaneously simulating noise in a digital holographic continuous phase map to generate a noise grayscale image”. It is believed that the word “simultaneous” refers to the simultaneous nature of the two simulating actions (i.e., “simulating a MEMS microstructure” and “simulating noise”) and thus should be stated as a single step relative to the other sub-steps (“adding”, “treating”, “designing”, “inputting”) of the claimed “step one”. See, e.g., paragraphs [0006] and [0046] of the originally-filed specification. Thus, for examination, the above phrase will be treated as: “simulating a MEMS microstructure to generate an object phase image through generation of random matrix superposition and simultaneously simulating noise in a digital holographic continuous phase map to generate a noise grayscale image”.
Claims 2-9 inherit the deficiencies of Claim 1.
Appropriate correction is required.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-9, as best understood, would be allowable if rewritten to overcome the rejections based on 35 USC 112(b) explained above.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter.
With respect to Claim 1, although the prior art discloses various phase noise reduction methods, including simulation of noise, the prior art does not appear to disclose or suggest the several claimed method steps and their particular features and requirements.
With respect to Claims 2-9, these claims each depend from Claim 1, and are therefore allowable for at least the reasons stated above.
Related Art
The following references are cited to show examples of holographic methods including noise simulation, but which do not appear to otherwise disclose or suggest the present invention: (1) U.S. Pat. No. 6,809,845 of Kim et al.; (2) U.S. Pat. No. 9,360,299 of Kim; and (3) U.S. Pat. Appl. Pub. No. 2010/0046848 A1 of Witzgall et al.
Conclusion
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/RYAN S DUNNING/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2872