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 .
Claim status
This action is in response to applicant filed on 10/02/2024. Claims 1-11 are pending for examination.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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.
Claim(s) 1, 5, 8 and 10 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(1) as being anticipated by Sonnet (KR102019036).
Regarding claim 1: Sonnet disclose a passing determination device comprising:
a processor that
acquires a first captured image obtained by repeatedly capturing an image of a region including a passing determination position of a trailer from a front of the trailer in a traveling direction of the trailer (Figs. 1, 4(a)-4(d), ¶0008-0009, ¶0049: “A first camera 301 for photographing the front side of the container”),
detects the trailer from the first captured image (implicitly within figures 4(a)-4(d)), and
determines that the trailer detected from the first captured image captured at a first time passes through the passing determination position when the trailer is detected from the first captured image captured at the first time and the trailer is not detected from the first captured image captured within a first time period from the first time (Figures, 4(a)-4(d), ¶0027, ¶0049: the image recognition device receives a detection signal to activate the cameras. It is interpret that by not receiving a detection signal, that’s indication (i.e. detection) that the trailer is not being detected within a first period of time).
Regarding claim 5: Sonnet disclose the passing determination device according to claim 1, further comprising:
a database, wherein the processor detects identification information of the trailer, and stores the identification information of the trailer determined to pass through the passing determination position in the database.(¶0096)
Regarding claim 8: Sonnet disclose a passing determination device comprising:
a front camera that repeatedly captures an image of a region including a passing determination position of the trailer from the front in a traveling direction of the trailer (Fig. 1, item 301, ¶0049);
acquires a first captured image from the front camera, wherein
the processor detects the trailer from the first captured image, (Figs. 1, 4(a)-4(d), ¶0008-0009, ¶0049: “A first camera 301 for photographing the front side of the container”), and
determines that the trailer detected from the first captured image captured at a first time passes through the passing determination position when the trailer is detected from the first captured image captured at the first time and the trailer is not detected from the first captured image captured within a first time period from the first time (Figures, 4(a)-4(d), ¶0027, ¶0049: the image recognition device receives a detection signal to activate the cameras. It is interpret that by not receiving a detection signal, that’s indication (i.e. detection) that the trailer is not being detected within a first period of time).
Regarding claim 10: Claim 10 recite a method with the functional limitation of claim 1 and therefore is rejected for the same reasons of claim 1.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-4, 6-7, 9 & 11 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
The prior art made of record cited in the PTO-892 and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
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/OMAR CASILLASHERNANDEZ/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2689