DETAILED ACTION
1. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Specification
2. The specification is objected to for the following:
The title of the invention is not descriptive. A new title is required that is clearly indicative of the invention to which the claims are directed.
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.
3. Claims 1-5 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over
JP2014053669A (Published on March 20, 2014 by Kobayashi, Kiyoshi) in view of Nvs et al. (US 2023/0063002 A1).
As in Claim 1, Kobayashi teaches a control device comprising (FIGS.1-2, pars. 13-14, an image transmitting and receiving system comprising an image transmitting device 1 and an image receiving device 2):
at least one processor or circuit configured to function as (FIG. 1, at least pars. 16, 18, a control unit 14 of the image transmitting apparatus 1 and a control unit 24 of the image receiving device 2):
a thumbnail image acquisition order determination unit configured to determine an order of acquiring thumbnail images, which are images corresponding to presetting information, in such a manner that a thumbnail image corresponding to a presetting, among the thumbnail images is acquired with priority (pars. 19-20, 23-24, 26-38, 47-50, the receiving apparatus 2 generates a reception order list 201 from the transmitted transmission order list 101, which includes order information and flags indicating transmission status );
a thumbnail acquisition unit configured to acquire the thumbnail images according to the order determined by the thumbnail image acquisition order determination unit (pars. 19, 23, 26, 31-33, 47-50, the control unit 24 then displays the received thumbnails image data on the display unit 25 in the order of reception, meaning that the display order initially follows the sequence in which thumbnails are received, which corresponds to the transmission order set by the transmitting apparatus); and
a thumbnail display control unit configured to display the thumbnail images on a display unit (see FIGS. 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12, at least par. 24, the control unit 24 displays the thumbnail image data on a display unit 25 of the image receiving device in the order of reception; further see pars. 26-29, 33-37, and 41).
Kobayashi does not appear to explicitly teach presetting information including one or a plurality of set values regarding a camera; a thumbnail image corresponding to a presetting for which at least a set value for changing an angle of view of the camera is included.
However, in the same field of the invention, Nvs teaches presetting information including one or a plurality of set values regarding a camera (at least pars. 34, 47-50, the image data can be filtered based on information that reflects camera-related capture conditions or setting values such as angle variation, zoom level, and viewpoint changes); a thumbnail image corresponding to a presetting for which at least a set value for changing an angle of view of the camera is included (at least pars. 34, 47-50).
Therefore, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art to modify the system and method for determining of transmitting or displaying order of the thumbnails based on settings information, as taught by Kobayashi, and to provide the way to filter image data based on information including camera-related capture conditions, as taught by Nvs. The motivation is to remove irrelevant or low-quality images, improving accuracy and efficiency of damage identification and avoiding unreliable or duplicate-based estimates.
Claims 5 and 6 are substantially similar to Claim 1 and rejected under the same rationale.
Allowable Subject Matter
4. Claims 2-3 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in an independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Claim 4 is dependent of claim 3 and the references are not provided for claim 4.
Conclusion
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/RINNA YI/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2179
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