` BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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` CANON, INC., CANON )
` U.S.A., INC., and )
` AXIS )
` COMMUNICATIONS AB, ) Case No. PIR2019-00314
` ) U.S. Patent No. 7,932,923
` Petitioners, )
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` vs. )
` ) Case No. IPR2019-00311
` AVIGILON FORTRESS ) U.S. Patent No. 7,932,923
` CORPORATION, )
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` Patent Owner. )
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` APPEARANCES:
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` BY: MR. RICHARD MARTINELLI
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` 51 West 52nd Street
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` Representing Canon, Inc. and
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` FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW,
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` GARRETT & DUNNER, LLP
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` BY: MR. GUANG-YU ZHU
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` Guang-yu.zhu@finnegan.com
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` W I T N E S S : A L A N B O V I K , P h . D . P A G E
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` THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Good morning. We
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` This is media unit 1 of the
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` videorecorded deposition of
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` Dr. Alan Bovik, Ph.D., taken by the counsel
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` for the plaintiff; right?
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` Am I right?
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` MR. MARTINELLI: Petitioner.
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` THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Ah, petitioner,
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` thank you.
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` In the matter of Canon, Inc., and
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` Canon U.S.A, Inc., and Axis Communications AB
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` versus Avigilon Fortress Corporation filed in
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` the United States Patent and Trademark Office,
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` IPR number 2019-00314 and 2019- -- 19-00311.
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` This deposition is being held at
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` Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, located at
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` 300 North LaSalle in Chicago, Illinois.
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` My name is Barbara Patel from Veritext
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` and I am the videographer. The court reporter
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` is Angela Loisi from Veritext. I am not
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` Counsel present in the room and
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` MR. MARTINELLI: So Richard Martinelli
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` for the Canon entities.
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` MR. ZHU: Guang-Yu Zhu for Axis.
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` MR. DOKHANCHY: Reza Dokhanchy for the
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` patent owner, Avigilon.
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` (Witness sworn.)
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` WHEREUPON:
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` ALAN BOVIK, Ph.D.,
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` called as a witness herein, having been
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` DIRECT EXAMINATION
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` BY MR. MARTINELLI:
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` Q. Okay. Good morning, Dr. Bovik. Good
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` to see you again.
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` A. Good morning, counselor. Nice to be
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` Q. So you've done a number of depositions
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` A. Yeah. I just looked. This is my
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` Q. Okay. So we probably don't need to go
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` Q. -- of the rules here. I just want to
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` asking that's unclear, please feel free to
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` correct me. And if at any point you need a
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` pending and we can take a break; is that okay?
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` A. Fair enough. Sure.
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` Q. How many of those depositions that
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` A. Oh, I didn't do a count of those, but
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` A. Maybe more. You know, I mean, I
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` Q. Sure.
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` Q. But we've done a couple I think in --
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` Q. -- these series of matters.
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` Q. And so you understand that this is
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. And you understand that the audience
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` preside over the IPR proceeding?
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` A. Yes.
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` A. That is correct.
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` Q. I see you have a copy of the patent
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` Q. Is that one marked with Canon
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` A. It is. I don't know if you have to do
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` Q. No. I don't think there's any magic
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` Q. So if you're happy with your copy, you
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` A. I think it -- it's just fine, yeah.
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` MR. MARTINELLI: Reza, would you like
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` MR. DOKHANCHY: Thanks.
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` BY MR. MARTINELLI:
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` Q. When was the last time that you read
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` A. I was reading it this morning.
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` And you'll agree with me that,
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` Q. Okay. And it's important for the
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` explains, you know, a record of almost four
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` decades of work in areas related to visual
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` signals, visual processing, visual
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` surveillance, visual perception, and broadly
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` related areas to those without in any way
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` Q. Okay. I'm not trying to narrow at
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` A. Well, I understand what "enablement"
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` Q. And do you agree that it's the ability
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` Q. Mm-hmm. And you could help me
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` disclosed in the 923 Patent; right?
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` Q. Okay. But I guess we'll see how we do
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` I mean, so you're asking me about object
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` A. I haven't given an opinion about any
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` Perhaps you could, you know --
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` Q. Okay. So --
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` A. -- and, you know, I'm not finished.
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` Q. Mm-hmm.
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` A. So to speak, hand me my report which I
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` You said the patent claims are very
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` A. I think your question mischaracterizes
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` what you said. I mean, can't remember --
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` recite what your question was, but I will say
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` A. That's all I've said. Okay. Is --
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` Q. Okay. Was that --
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` A. I haven't said anything else --
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` Q. Okay.
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` A. -- about, you know, object detection,
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` A. I mean, object detection had been
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` Q. Mm-hmm. And so does the patent
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` disclose in the specification a way to perform
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` object detection from a single camera?
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` be clear that the limitations of a claim don't
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` All right. This means that the single
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` All right. So that same -- you know,
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` MR. MARTINELLI: Can you answer the
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` THE WITNESS: One more time.
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` BY MR. MARTINELLI:
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` Q. I'll restate it.
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` A. Well, I mean, claim 1, for example.
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` This is what's claimed. Object detection from
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` Q. And it's, in your words, the whole
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` Isn't that what you just said?
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` A. No. I said nothing like that. I
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` Q. Okay. Let me ask it this way, then.
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` If I want to build a system and I don't want
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` A. I -- I -- you know, have not given an
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` A. -- I'm not --
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` Q. It's a different question, though.
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` A. You know, it's not my role to, you
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` doesn't exist, but -- I'm not finished.
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` But the 923 claims as I describe in my
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` them. Okay. And, you know, what's at issue
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` here is the prior art, not some hypothetical,
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` you know, system which you're asking me to
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` Q. Okay. I'm not asking you to build a
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` the claim; right?
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` A. I agree with that.
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` Q. Okay.
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` A. And, well, we're talking about the
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` whole patent, too, yeah.
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` Q. Right. But most important thing for
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` determining validity is the limitations of the
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` claim; right?
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` Q. Okay.
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` A. And everybody's opinions.
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` Q. Okay. Is it your opinion that the
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` prior art is inapplicable to the patent
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` because it has multiple cameras?
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` A. I think that is an aspect of it. I
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` mean, I give a lot of other opinions about why
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` the prior art is inapplicable. It's not just
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` Q. Mm-hmm.
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` A. There's a lot of reasons why the prior
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` which is really your question --
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` Q. Right.
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` A. -- you know, response...
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` Q. But any individual distinction could
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` be enough to show that the prior art is not
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` relevant to the claim; right?
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` A. Are you asking me a legal question? I
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` mean, that's a legal question.
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` Q. Well, no. Your -- your analysis was,
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` A. Well, what I really say is, you know,
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` So I don't want to encapsulate and give a
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` Okay. So, you know, what we ought to
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` know, proceeding is about, the opinions I've
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` Q. Okay. So what this --
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` A. -- I mean, I got -- you know, 63 pages
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` precisely what you're asking me about.
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` Q. Yeah.
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` A. And, you know, so I -- I think you
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` Q. Just to --
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` Here's the question.
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` Can you show me where in the
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` specification of the patent it teaches
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` MR. DOKHANCHY: Objection;
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` THE WITNESS: And just to res- -- just
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` Q. Sure.
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` A. -- just so I have it straight.
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` Q. Can you identify anywhere in the
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