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 .
This office action is in response to communication filed on 7/7/2026.
Claims 1, 3-4, 6, 8-11, 13-15, 17-18 and 20 are presented for examination.
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.
Claim 1 recites the limitation "the first UI" in line 14. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 11 recites the limitation "the first UI" in line 5. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 15 recites the limitation "the first UI" in line 6. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1, 3-4, 6, 8-11, 13-15, 17-18 and 20 are allowable over prior art of record.
The closest prior art of record, Raveendran (KR 20100137007) teaches electronic device with a display configured to operate at one of a plurality of low-power modes. The display assess available power, selects a mode from a plurality of modes, and adjusts image quality to achieve a specific power savings amount tied to that level. Raveendran fail to disclose or suggest “identify a final power consumption reduction amount corresponding to the selected level by combining the power consumption amounts corresponding of each of the plurality of image quality processing elements” where the plurality of image quality elements include “driving processing, contrast ratio processing, motion processing, noise processing, sharpness processing and color processing”. Kim (KR 20160109487) teaches incentive information based on the actual power reduction amount, due to the power saving operation of the electrical product and the power reduction amount. The combination of Raveendran and Kim fail to teach “based on a viewing time being equal or greater than a predetermined reference viewing time, control the display to display information about the identified user reward and the identified final consumption reduction amount”
Response to Arguments
The 101 rejections have been withdrawn. The claim pertains to an abstract idea of providing a reward based on viewing times. The Examiner wants to point out that the concept of providing a reward based on viewing times, which is an abstract idea under advertising, marketing or sales activities or behaviors, the additional elements are implementing specific controls that improve the operation of the display. The feedback UI does not merely display information; it receives user input that directly controls execution of a power consumption reduction mode, which changes how the display operates through the six image quality processing operations.
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/RAQUEL ALVAREZ/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3622
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