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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 .
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
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 1-7 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 applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
1)Claim 1, last line; the recitation “the association” is indefinite. The recitation “the association” should be recited as “the association with either the first camera or the second camera”.
2)Claim 2, lines 4-5; the recitation “associates each of the terminals with either the first camera or the second camera based on a result of the comparison.” is indefinite. The recitation should be recited as “associates each of the terminals with either the first camera or the second camera based on a result of the comparison of the detected terminals.”.
3)Claim 6, lines 4-5; the recitation “associates the one second camera with the plurality of terminals included in the detected group” is indefinite. It is not clear what is meant by the one second camera.
4)Claim 7, lines 3-4; the recitation “detects the plurality of terminals corresponding to the communications as the one group.” is indefinite. The recitation should be recited as “detects the plurality of terminals corresponding to the communications as the one group associates with the second camera.”
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-7 would be allowable if rewritten to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action and to include all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Claim 1 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action.
Conclusion
7. The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Matsuura (US Pub 20160114243 A1 in IDS) teaches an image processing system that comprises a common camera control means that determines the position of a common virtual camera on the basis of the positions of the player objects belonging to the corresponding group such that the player objects belonging to the corresponding group are included in the imaging range and an individual camera control means that arranges individual virtual cameras for each player object that does not belong to the group and determines the position of each individual virtual camera on the basis of the position of the corresponding player object such that the corresponding player object is included in the imaging range. Comprising these means enables the image processing system to reduce the processing load of image generation in 3D virtual space. (Paragraph 0007-0009).
Watanabe et al (US 20130124683 A1) teaches a data distribution system in which, because requests are likely to be predominately from RANs with a large number of connected clients that can be distribution destination candidates, distribution to such RANs is performed in multicast mode, whereas because it is not expected that requests will be concentrated from RANs with a small number of connected clients that can be distribution destination candidates, distribution to such RANs is performed in unicast mode, and these modes are thus adaptively switched between as the number of connected clients increases or decreases. (Paragraph 0139).
Aizawa et al (US 20200322584 A1) teaches a control device that, when the designation of a viewpoint for a virtual camera does not satisfy a virtual camera constraint of maintaining a certain standard image quality, carries out control so that the virtual camera does not move from a position that satisfies the constraint or returns the virtual camera to a position that satisfies the constraint and thereby reduces the amount of transmission data in accordance with the load on the network. (Paragraph 0113-0116).
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VIJAY SHANKAR
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2624
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