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`UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`SONY CORPORATION
`Petitioner
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`Patent No. 7,477,284
`Issue Date: Jun. 13, 2009
`Title: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING AND VIEWING
`STEREOSCOPIC PANORAMIC IMAGES
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`Inter Partes Review No. IPR2013-00219
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`DECLARATION OF KATSUHIDE TAKAHASHI
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`Petition for Inter Partes Review
`of U.S. Pat. No. 7,477,284
`IPR2013‐00219
`EXHIBIT
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`I, Katsuhide Takahashi, do hereby make the following declaration:
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`1.
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`The statements contained in this declaration are based on my personal
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`knowledge.
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`I am an engineer at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (“MEC”) and have been
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`employed by MEC since 1991. My current title at lVfEC is Manager, C-
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`Section, Software Design Engineering Dept, Design Systems Engineering
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`Centre. My job responsibilities at lVIEC include development support for
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`design systems. In November 1997, my title at MEC was a researcher and
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`my job responsibilities included study of distributed computing.
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`On November 27, 1997, I attended a conference held by the SIG—
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`CyberSpace (“SIG-CS”) of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (“VRS”).
`At that conference, I presented a paper that I had co—authored.
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`In 1997, VRS had a website that could be Viewed by any interested member
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`of the general public. Prior to the November 27, 1997 conference, an
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`announcement was made on the VRS website about the conference,
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`including the date, time, and location of the conference. The announcement
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`invited any interested individual to participate in the conference, and
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`included additional information such as the program for the conference, the
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`authors and titles of the five papers to be presented, registration information
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`and applicable fees.
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`Attached are copies of the VRS website announcement of the November 27,
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`1997 conference (Exhibit 1T), along With the notice seeking participants for
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`the conference (Exhibit 2T). I was able to access the VRS website and see
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`the announcement and notice seeking participants for the November 27,
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`1997 conference prior to the date of the conference.
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`MEC hosted this November 27, 1997 conference in one of the conference
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`rooms of the Landmark Tower in Yokohama. I helped set up the conference
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`room along with my colleagues at MEC. I was not a member of the SIG-CS
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`at the time of the conference.
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`Five papers were presented at the November 27, 1997 conference. The
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`paper that I co-authored and presented was entitled “A Virtual Park on Top
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`of Spline — Bicycle Media Park.” Our presentation was the first of five
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`presentations. Immediately after my presentation, Yasuhiro Kawakita
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`presented a paper entitled “Generation of Panoramic Stereo Images from
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`Monocular Moving Images.”
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`During the conference, copies of a booklet containing the five papers being
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`presented were made available to all participants. The booklet was entitled
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`“Virtual Reality Society of Japan Research Report” and was dated
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`November 27, 1997.
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`At the conference, these booklets were piled on the reception desk leading
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`into the conference room. I stood at the reception desk and saw conference
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`participants taking copies of the booklet. I also took a copy of the booklet,
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`and reviewed it while listening to the other four presentations.
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`10.
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`The booklet included a table of contents at the beginning, which identified
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`the five papers being presented at the conference. My paper was listed first,
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`and Mr. Kawakita’s paper was listed second.
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`11. Attached is a copy of the booklet for the November 27, 1997 conference
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`(Exhibit 3T). As a person who helped the reception and participated in the
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`conference, I was not advised or instructed to treat the booklet as
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`confidential.
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`I declare under penalties of perjury set out in 18 U.S.C. § 1001 that the foregoing
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`statements are true and correct to the best of my knowledge.
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`Executed on March L6 , 2013.
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