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 .
This Office Action is in response to the Applicant’s communication filed on August 18, 2025. In virtue of this communication, claims 1-10 are currently presented in the instant application.
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
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.
Claims 1 and 6 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Kovesi et al. (US 2014/0072211).
With respect to claims 1 and 6, Kovesi discloses in figure 3 a motion sensor and a method thereof with self-adaptive adjustment function, comprising: a sensing module (342, e.g., a motion sensor) configured to generate a sensing signal (S1, e.g., a sensing signal); a processing module (335, e.g., a CPU or a processor) connected to the sensing module (see figure 3), and configured to calculate a duration of the sensing signal (paragraph 0008, e.g., “calculating a total change area … creating a list of occupancy candidate regions based on filtering of determined areas … tacking the one or more occupancy candidate regions over a period of time”); and a communication module (330, e.g., a communication interface or communication module) connected to the processing module (see figure 3); wherein when the processing module is in a preset state and the duration of the sensing signal is greater than or equal to a target threshold value (paragraph 0006, e.g., “… generate one or more centroids that represent areas of the occupancy candidate that are greater than a second threshold …”, the processing module is configured to generate a control signal (S2, e.g., a control signal) and transmit the control signal to a target device (310-320, e.g., a luminaire or a target device) via the communication module (see figure 3).
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Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2 and 7 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 3-5 and 8-10 are also objected as being dependent upon objected claims 1 and 6, respectively.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Prior art Leinen – US 2016/0128166 (see figure 9)
Prior art Lundy et al. – US 2015/0368967 (see figure 1)
Prior art Pelton et al. – US 2014/0184083 (see figure 2)9
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/TUNG X LE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2845 August 25, 2026
