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`In re Applicant:
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`DAVID A. MONROE
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`Filed:
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`January 3, 2003
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`Serial No.:
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`10/336,470
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`For:
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`APPARATUS FOR
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`CAPTURING, CONVERTING
`AND TRANSMITTING A
`VISUAL IMAGE SIGNAL VIA
`A DIGITAL TRANSMISSION
`SYSTEM
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`Art Unit:
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`Examiner:
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`Houshang Safaipour
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`Docket No.:
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`07-0197
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`RESPONSE TO NON-FINAL OFFICE ACTION DATED MARCH 8, 2007
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`Commissioner for Patents
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`Dear Sir:
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`Responsive to the Non-Final Office Action mailed March 8, 2007, please amend the
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`application as indicated below. Pursuant to 37 CFR 1.16, the amendment is believed to place
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`the application in condition for allowance or in better form for appeal. A Request for three
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`month Extension of Time and the Extension Fee ($1020.00) are attached. Also submitted
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`herewith are a Supplemental Information Disclosure Statement and the fee ($180.00) under
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`1.17(p) for consideration of the IDS after the first Office Action was mailed.
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`Amendments to the Claims begin on page 2 of this paper.
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`Remarks/Arguments begin on page 59 of this paper.
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`Industry has developed and continues to develop and enhance techniques for
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`scanning, compressing, transmitting, receiving, decompressing, viewing and printing
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`documents. This technology, encompassing the full body of facsimile transmission
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`and reception, is currently in widespread use. The current standards, CCITT Group Ill
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`and Group IV, define methods to scan and transmit high quality, bi-level images with
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`a high degree of success and has become commercially acceptable throughout the
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`world. However, gray scale documents are not easily transmitted because the scanners
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`and algorithms are not tailored to the function. Three dimensional objects will not fit
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`Examples of systems that have addressed some of these issues are shown in
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`U.S. Patent No. 5,193,012 which shows a video to facsimile signal converter, and
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`U.S. Patent No. 3,251,937 which discloses a system for transmitting still television
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`pictures over a telephone line.
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`Wire photography, and its extension, radio photography, have long been used by the
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`news media. The most common form involves an input device that converts
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`photographs
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`facilities or radio. At the receiving end, reproducing equipment reconverts the encoded
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`image signals by exposing photographic film or other sensitized paper. The term
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`Still video equipment has recently become available from vendors such as Kodak,
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`Canon and Sony, and is again primarily used by television and print media, although
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`applications are expanding rapidly in such areas as insurance investigations and real
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`estate transactions. A still video camera captures a full color still video image that can
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`be reproduced using a special video printer that converts the still video image data
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`into hard copy form. For applications requiring communication of the still video
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`image, transmit/receive units are available wherein the image begins and ends as a
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`The Photophone from Image Data Corporation is an example of a specialty product
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`that combines a video camera, display and storage facility in a terminal package. One
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`terminal can send a real time or stored still video image to another for display or
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`storage, or printing on special video printers. Again, the signal begins and ends as a
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`Another example of a specialty product is peripheral equipment available for personal
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`computers that enables the input/output, storage and processing of still video images
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`in digitized formats. For instance, the Canon PV-540 is a floppy disk drive that uses
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`U.S. Patent No. 5,193,012 discloses a still-video to facsimile conversion system for
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`converting the still-video image frame into a half-tone facsimile reproduction without
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`having to store an entire intermediated gray scale image frame by repeatedly
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`with a virtual facsimile page synchronization module. This system permits image to
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`While the various prior art systems and techniques provide limited solutions to the
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`problem of transmitting visual images via a facsimile transmission system, all fall
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`capturing, storing, transmitting and printing visual images in a practical manner.
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`The subject invention is an image capture, compression and transmission system that
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`invention permits maximum flexibility, with the camera/converter/telephone or other
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`The—subjeet—invention—is Embodiments provide an image capture, compression and
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`The preferred embodiment permits capture of a video image using a digital camera, an
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`analog camera, or a video camera such as a camcorder. The captured video image is
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`The—preferred—embodiment—permits Embodiments permit capture of a video image
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`For example, the present invention, permits a still frame visual image to be captured
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`could be merged directly into newsprint. The image may also be sent to and printed
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`Where desired, the images may be stored in memory for later recall, and may be
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`anywhere in the world. Where desired, the images may be stored in memory for later
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`future digital modes, can be used to transmit and receive visual image signals. A desk
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`model is also disclosed and permits connection to a standard land line telephonic
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`system. A mobile console model is disclosed for use in law enforcement vehicles,
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`audio mode or future digital modes, can be used to transmit and receive visual image
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`signals. An embodiment including a [A] desk model is also disclosed and permits
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`basic real time transmission system via Group-III fax to a comprehensive system
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`supporting both land line and wireless transmission of image, audio and documentary
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`playback, as well. The playback can be via an internal speaker, out an external out
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`jack to a remote device or via a cellular telephone, land line telephone, wireless radio
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`signals through the use of an internal microphone, and external input device, a cellular
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`telephone, land line telephone, wireless radio or other communication system, and
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`digitized audio playback, as well. The playback can be via an internal speaker, out an
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`The digitized image and audio capture features permit association of audio with an
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`image, as well as data with the image. Useful data associated with the image includes
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`GPS from either internal or external GPS devices, range information from ranging
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`devices, date and time, and text which may be input from an integrated keyboard or
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`scale format and/or half tone format. The image can also be stored in the selected
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`output mode, such as by way of example, a Group-III facsimile mode. The versatile
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`capability of the system permits transmission of captured data to a standard bi-level
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`any of a variety of formats and protocols including JPEG, FAX, wireless, emerging
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`imagery formats, FAX and computer data protocols. The invention is adapted to
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`operate in multiple modes, with a unitary capture and send mode or separate capture
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`real time clock and added text. This permits the complete historical data to be
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`It is yet another object and feature of the invention to provide an apparatus for storing
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`It is a further object and feature of the invention to provide the means and method for
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`capturing images prior to, prior to and after, or after a triggering event.
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`The image capture and transmission system of the subject invention is suited for
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`capturing one or more single frame analog image or a digital image data signal and
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`transmitting the captured signal via any of a plurality of transmission schemes to a
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`remote receiving station where the image is downloaded in a suitable format for
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`viewing and printing on hard paper copy, a CRT screen image, or other medium. The
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`Group III facsimile transmission system and permits capture of the image at a remote
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`location using an analog or digital camera. Two generic configurations are shown and
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`described, the first, where each image is transmitted as it is captured, and the second,
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`storage, and selective recall of captured images
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`transmission. The invention also contemplates a portable storage medium, wherein
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`later use. While a system for black and white (gray tones) for Group-III facsimile
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`transmission is described in detail herein, the invention could be readily adapted to
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`transmission of color images utilizing the teachings of the present invention using
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`industry standard color video standards and circuits. Both portable, or hand held, and
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`[The] According to embodiments, an image capture and transmission system [of the
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`subject invention is suited for capturing] captures either one or more single frame
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`analog [image] images or digital [image] images or image data or visual data or visual
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`images, the aforementioned hereinafter being referred to as an “image” or “images”,
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`[data signal and transmitting the] and transmits a captured image in a digital signal via
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`any of a plurality of transmission schemes through a transmission interface such as,
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`for example, cellular transmission, radio signal, satellite transmission, hard line
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`telephonic transmission, or other transmission to a remote receiving station where the
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`image is downloaded [in a suitable format] for viewing on a screen or [and] printing
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`on hard paper copy or other medium. [The] According to embodiments, a system is
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`particularly well suited for sending and/or receiving images via a standard Group III
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`facsimile transmission system and permits capture of the image at a remote location
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`using an analog or digital camera. Two generic configurations are shown and
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`described, the first, where each image is transmitted as it is captured, and the second,
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`which permits capture,
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`storage, and selective recall of captured images
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`portable storage medium[, wherein] Mg the captured [stored medium may] im_ag§
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`stored thereon and which can be removed from the capture and transmission unit
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`[device] and archived for later use. While a system for black and white (gray tones)
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`for Group-III facsimile transmission is described in detail herein,
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`[the invention
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`could] embodiments can be readily adapted to transmission of color images utilizing
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`the teachings of the present [invention] disclosure using industry standard colo