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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 .
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 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2022/0262014 to Sato et al. (“Sato”).
Regarding claim 1, Sato teaches an imaging system mounted on a moving object and capturing an image of an imaging target that is at least a part of surroundings of the moving object apart from the moving object, comprising:
an imager that captures images of the imaging target over time to acquire a plurality of images (Figure 5A-5C show examples of three captured images that are captured successively);
a blur corrector that acquires movement information of the moving object to correct blur along a movement direction that occurs in each of the plurality of images during exposure of the imager (paragraph [0063] teaches the motion bur correction function that is based on a detected movement direction); and
an image processor that calculates a pixel movement amount of a common area in the plurality of images (paragraph [0048] teaches movement amount on the imaging plane of the pixels),
the blur corrector correcting blur along the movement direction during exposure when the imager captures a next image, based on the movement information and on the pixel movement amount acquired from the image processor (calculations and measurement performed in prepatory images captured previously are used to determine parameters for performing blur correction functions, see Figures 7A-7F) .
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-18 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
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AMY R. HSU
Examiner
Art Unit 2664
/AMY R HSU/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2638
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