DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Drawings
The drawings are objected to because the unlabeled rectangular box(es) shown in the drawings should be provided with descriptive text labels. Corrected drawing sheets in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121(d) are required in reply to the Office action to avoid abandonment of the application. Any amended replacement drawing sheet should include all of the figures appearing on the immediate prior version of the sheet, even if only one figure is being amended. The figure or figure number of an amended drawing should not be labeled as “amended.” If a drawing figure is to be canceled, the appropriate figure must be removed from the replacement sheet, and where necessary, the remaining figures must be renumbered and appropriate changes made to the brief description of the several views of the drawings for consistency. Additional replacement sheets may be necessary to show the renumbering of the remaining figures. Each drawing sheet submitted after the filing date of an application must be labeled in the top margin as either “Replacement Sheet” or “New Sheet” pursuant to 37 CFR 1.121(d). If the changes are not accepted by the examiner, the applicant will be notified and informed of any required corrective action in the next Office action. The objection to the drawings will not be held in abeyance.
ART REJECTION:
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 (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) 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.
Claim(s) 1-2, and 11-14 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Fujita(USPGPUB 2023/0091505.
-- In considering claim 1, the claimed subject matter that is met by Fujita includes:
1) determining an accessible area of the parking space is met by the sensor determining parking space(see: sec[0021])
2) defining grid points in the accessible area and determining features of the parking space for each of the grid points is met by the sensor detecting a point group of a feature points of objects(see: sec[0022])
4) wherein each of the features is registrable from a respective one of the grid points obtaining the quality value from an average number of features that is registrable from each of the grid points is met by the object recognition unit identifying positions and shapes of objects and acquiring the size based on area calculation(see: secs[0031-0032]).
-- With regards to claim 2, the grid points are arranged equidistantly from one another is met by the LIDAR detecting feature points, which would have been inherently equidistant from each other(see: sec[0022])
-- Claim 11 recites a device, whose components and functions substantially correspond to the method of claim 1, and therefore, is met for the reasons as discussed in the rejection of claim 1 above.
-- Claim 12 recites a device, whose components and functions substantially correspond to the method of claim 1, and therefore, is met for the reasons as discussed in the rejection of claim 1 above.
-- With regards to claim 13,
1) the motor vehicle having a device is met by the vehicle(A)
-- With regards to claim 14,
1) autonomously or semi-autonomously driving based on the quality value is met by the sensor(10) being autonomous sensor on the subject vehicle(see: sec[0022]).
Allowable Subject Matter
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.
Conclusion
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/DARYL C POPE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2687