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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 § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claims 11-18 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim(s) does/do not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter because they are directed to a model comprising plurality of classifiers which appear to be software implemented without any structural limitations and are therefore just “data per se” or “software per se.”
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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.
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1-2, 11, 19-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by D1.1
With regard to claim 1, D1 teach acquiring a to-be-recognized text, performing primary classification on the to-be-recognized text to obtain a plurality of text features, wherein the primary classification is configured to perform feature extraction on the to-be-recognized text from different dimensions, and features extracted from different dimensions have differences (see ¶¶ 26, 30, 31: visual feature extraction using multi layer neural network, attention feature extractor using fully convolution network; using different neural networks with different parameter space or dimensions); splicing the plurality of text features to obtain a spliced feature (see ¶¶ 32-33: extracted features are mixed, read as spliced); and performing secondary classification on the spliced feature to obtain a text category corresponding to the to-be-recognized text, wherein the secondary classification is configured to classify the spliced feature (see ¶¶ 36-37, fig. 6: mixed features are input to character recognizer neural network to recognize text).
With regard to claim 2, D1 teach inputting the to-be-recognized text into a plurality of first classifiers in a text recognition model for primary classification, to output the plurality of text features, wherein one of the first classifiers outputs one of the text features (see ¶¶ 26, 30-31: to be recognized text input to visual feature extractor and attention feature extractor); and inputting the spliced feature obtained by splicing the plurality of text features into a second classifier in the text recognition model for secondary classification, to output the text category corresponding to the to-be-recognized text (see fig. 6, ¶¶ 32-33, 36-37, 58-59: mixed features are input to character recognizer neural network).
With regard to claim 11, see discussion of claim 1.
With regard to claim 19, see discussion of claim 1.
With regard to claim 20, see discussion of claim 1.
Claims 3-10 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.
Claims 12-18 are rejected under 101, as noted above, but would be allowable if the 101 were overcome and if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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/AVINASH YENTRAPATI/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2672
1 US Publication No. 2022/0237403.
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