Ex Parte KasaharaDownload PDFPatent Trial and Appeal BoardNov 17, 201613689228 (P.T.A.B. Nov. 17, 2016) Copy Citation UNITED STA TES p A TENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE APPLICATION NO. FILING DATE 13/689,228 11129/2012 20277 7590 11/21/2016 MCDERMOTT WILL & EMERY LLP The McDermott Building 500 North Capitol Street, N.W. WASHINGTON, DC 20001 FIRST NAMED INVENTOR Yuki KASAHARA UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE United States Patent and Trademark Office Address: COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450 www .uspto.gov ATTORNEY DOCKET NO. CONFIRMATION NO. 050083-0329 2035 EXAMINER ZHANG, FAN ART UNIT PAPER NUMBER 2674 NOTIFICATION DATE DELIVERY MODE 11/21/2016 ELECTRONIC Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding. The time period for reply, if any, is set in the attached communication. Notice of the Office communication was sent electronically on above-indicated "Notification Date" to the following e-mail address( es): ipdocketmwe@mwe.com PTOL-90A (Rev. 04/07) UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD Ex parte YUKI KASAHARA Appeal2016-002049 1 Application 13/689,228 Technology Center 2600 Before JEAN R. HOMERE, ERIC B. CHEN, and MICHAEL J. ENGLE, Administrative Patent Judges. HOMERE, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL 1 Appellant identifies the real party in interest as PFU LIMITED. App. Br. 1. Appeal2016-002049 Application 13/689,228 STATEMENT OF THE CASE Appellant appeals under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a) from the Examiner's Final Rejection of claims 1 and 4-12, which constitute all of the claims pending in this appeal. Claim 2 has been canceled. Claim 3 has been objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would otherwise be allowable if rewritten in independent form to include the limitation of the base claim and any intervening claims. App. Br. 2. We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b ). We affirm. Appellant's Invention Appellant invented an overhead scanner device that captures two images of a document, each image including a point indicated on the document by the user such that the subsequent detection of the two points provided in the document specifies the boundary of a region to be cropped. Spec. 20:9--22:7, Figs. 1, 15. Illustrative Claim Independent claim 1 is illustrative and reads as follows: Claim 1. An overhead scanner device comprising: an imager placed above a document and configured to scan the document from above for reading an image of the document; and a controller including: an image acquiring unit that controls the imager to acquire the image of the document including at least an indicator provided by a user indicating directly one point on the document; a specific-point detecting unit that detects two specific points each determined based on the distance from the gravity center of an indicator to the end of the indicator, from the image acquired by the imager; and 2 Appeal2016-002049 Application 13/689,228 an image cropping unit that crops the image acquired by the imager into a rectangle with opposing comers at the two points detected by the specific-point detecting unit, wherein the image acquiring unit controls the imager to acquire twice the image of the document to obtain two images of the document, each image including the indicator provided by the user, in response to an acquisition trigger, and the specific-point detecting unit detects the two points, one of which is detected from one of the two images, another of which is detected from another one of two images. Prior Art Relied Upon Robbins US 2006/0001650 Al Jan.5,2006 Tossing US 2010/0149211 Al June 17, 2010 Saito JP 7-162667 A June 23, 1995 Fukushima JP 2002-290702 A Oct. 4, 2002 Morichika JP 2004-363736 A July 5, 2006 ,....., 1 T~ l"\f\f\{") -1 !""'I"\ fl"\I"\ A.. T 1 ,.... I"\ f\f\ {") ianaKa JY LUUCopy with citationCopy as parenthetical citation