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.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 12/2/24 is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
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.
Claim(s) 1 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Basappa et al. (US 2010/0134332).
With regard to claim 1, Basappa diswcloses:
A codec system, comprising: a minimum change code generation circuit (Gray code 500 Fig. 5; 204 Fig. 2) configured to generate a digital code; a flag generation circuit coupled to the minimum change code generation circuit (206 Fig. 2; 204 Fig. 3) and configured to generate a flag based on the digital code; and a decoding circuit (502 fig 5) configured to decode the digital code according to a preset value (the output of adder is input into 2:1 multiplexer 510, and the remaining bits of the intermediate value (e.g., all bits but the most significant bit) are input into the 2:1 multiplexer 510) and the flag to generate an output value..
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-11 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.
Claims 12-20 are allowed.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Williams (US 6,345,008); Martekk (US 4,785,282) discloses minimum code change device..
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/PEGUY JEAN PIERRE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2845
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