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 .
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 1/16/2025 was filed on the mailing date of the claims on 1/16/2025. The submission is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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.
1. Claim(s) 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by U.S. Patent Application 2022/0094889 Lee et al. (hereinafter Lee).
2. Regarding Claim 1, Lee discloses A video output device (Title: “Electronic Apparatus Including Projector”) comprising:
a projector module configured to output a content image along a radiation direction (Fig. 2A; [0050], “The projector module 210 may be a device including a projector 211 capable of projecting an image”);
a first rotating device configured to rotate at least a portion of the projector module about a first axis that is parallel to the radiation direction (Figs. 2B, 4A; [0071], “projector module 210 to rotate in the direction of the second axis (Y axis)”. Examiner note: Claimed first axis is the second axis of Lee);
a second rotating device configured to rotate the projector module about a second axis
intersecting the first axis (Fig. 2B, 3, [0069], “rotate in the direction of the first axis (X axis) along with the first rotation member 312.” Abstract, “a second axis perpendicular to the first axis.” Examiner note: Claimed second axis is first axis of Lee);
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a substrate electrically connected to the second rotating device (internal circuit boards (substrates) provided in rotating projector module, circuit boards electrically connected to rotating components, [0043]-[0046]); and
a connector electrically connected to the substrate through a first wire, and electrically
connected to the second rotating device through a second wire ([0061], “the projector module 210 may be electrically connected to various system elements disposed within the second housing 240 through electric wiring within the pillar 25”),
wherein, while the projector module rotates about the second axis, the connector is configured to prevent the first wire and the second wire from being twisted (Figure 13 shows configuration that prevents wires from tangling when the body of the device rotates about the x axis, with respect to the claimed first axis, as illustrated in Fig 2B, that the claimed ‘portion of the projector’ (projector 211) is indeed rotated about the y axis such that it is parallel to the radiation direction of light emitted from the projector 211.).
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Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-15 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.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter:
Regarding Claim 2, Lee discloses The video output device of claim 1,
However, Lee does not explicitly disclose further comprising a third rotating device configured to rotate the projector module about a third axis intersecting the first axis and the second axis.
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Conclusion
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/OMER KHALID/Examiner, Art Unit 2422
/JOHN W MILLER/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2422