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` UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
`BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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`BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE )
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`Petitioners, ) IPR2020-01299
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`) Patent 8,630,761
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`PAICE LLC and THE ABELL )
`FOUNDATION, INC.,
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`Patent Owners.
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`The Virtual Deposition of
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`GREGORY W. DAVIS, Ph.D.
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`Date: April 14, 2021
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`The virtual deposition of GREGORY W. DAVIS,
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`Ph.D., called by the Patent Owners for examination,
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`pursuant to the applicable rules, taken
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`stenographically by Sandra L. Rocca, CSR, RMR, RDR,
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`CRR, on the 14th of April, 2021, at the hour of
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`GREGORY W. DAVIS, Ph.D.
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`EXAMINED BY
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`NUMBER MARKED FOR ID
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`Exhibit BMW1054
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` C.P. Quigley reference, "Predicting
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` GREGORY W. DAVIS, Ph.D.,
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`having been first duly sworn, was examined and
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`testified as follows:
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`BY MR. LIVEDALEN:
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` Q Good morning, Dr. Davis.
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` A Good morning.
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` Q Will you please state your name for the
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` A Sure. It's Dr. Gregory W. Davis.
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` Q You understand you're providing testimony
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`for IPR2020-01299 today?
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` A Well, I guess that's the number. I don't
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` MR. BITTMAN: I can confirm that that's
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` A Okay, thank you.
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` Q And I guess, Dr. Davis, what do you have in
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`front of you in terms of paper documents?
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` A Sure, I've got my declaration and then a
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`copy of the patent. I think I have a file history
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`here and actually it might be in another notebook.
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`A few of my exhibits. Do you want me to read
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`through all my tabs I have for you? Would that be
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`helpful?
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` Q That's fine. We could send you electronic
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`documents through the chat, but if you want to look
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`at the hard copies, that's fine as well.
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` A Yeah, I like the hard copies. Quite often
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`that can work out a little bit nicer.
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` Q Okay. All right. So I think we've
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`established that you -- your deposition today is for
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`IPR2020-01299. Is that right?
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` A Yes.
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` Q Okay. And Dr. Davis, you consider that your
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`expertise is the same or greater than a person of
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`skill in the art for this particular proceeding, is
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`that right?
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` A Yes, I do.
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` Q Okay. Dr. Davis, as to a person of skill in
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`the art, what is a parameter to you?
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` MR. BITTMAN: Objection, form.
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` A Can you point me to maybe something in my
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`declaration where I use that? That might -- it's
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`broad. It depends on the context sometimes.
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` Q Sure. So I will send you a document. How
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`about that? One second. I guess we'll -- we'll
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`just mark these as the regular exhibits. I think
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`that's probably easier. So this is BMW 1054, which
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`is the Quigley reference.
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` MR. BITTMAN: Yeah, that works.
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` Q Dr. Davis, I guess let me know when you have
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`it in front of you either electronically or
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` A I've got a hard copy here.
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` Q Okay. If you look at the abstract, it says,
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`I guess at the fifth line down it says, "This paper
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`presents work to attempt to predict these parameters
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`at the start of the journey using intelligent
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`classification techniques and the knowledge base of
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`previous journey histories."
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` So in the context of Quigley, what is a
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` MR. BITTMAN: Objection, form.
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` Q According to one of skill in the art.
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` A I think here you could look at -- they're
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`looking at operating variables, indicators of the
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`operation.
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` Q Okay. And if you'd go to page -- it's --
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`let's see, page 133 on the bottom is the number. I
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`think it's the -- just the fifth page in the
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`document.
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` A Yes.
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`it says, "If it is a weekday and the time is between
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`7:00 and 8:00 a.m., then there's a high expectation
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`of a journey of 1,000 to 1,300 seconds duration with
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`a distance around 14 kilometers."
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` Do you see that?
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` A Yes, I do.
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` Q So is it your opinion that Quigley predicts
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`the duration and the distance of a journey?
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` MR. BITTMAN: Objection, form.
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` A Well, I think this is just an indication of
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`some of the parameters that it's predicting. So for
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`example, if you go back to page 130, where you look
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`"Hybrid Power Train Control," for example, if you
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`look under "1st Generation Control," you can look
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`at -- you know, the essence of this type of control
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`is that all information would only be available
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`internally to the vehicle from transducers belonging
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`to the vehicle. A control of this type, if
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`implemented, would use signals derived from
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`technology already present in modern day vehicles,
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`e.g., electronic tachometer, engine management
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`system. Such information would include the driver's
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`operational inputs, throttle, brakes, et cetera.
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`And then time of day, year, engine management data
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`that would be some of the parameters, for example,
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` Q So all right. I don't think -- let's talk
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`about the results that are on page 133 at the top we
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`talked about in terms of whether there's a high
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`expectation of a journey of 1,000 to 1,300 seconds
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`duration with a distance of around 14 kilometers.
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`Do you see that discussion?
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` A Yes, I do.
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` Q And Quigley uses a GPS logger to obtain that
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` A Well, that was part of their vehicle
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`experiments where I think they were trying to prove
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`that they could, in fact, recognize a journey.
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` Q But none of the experiments use anything
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`besides a GPS logger, isn't that right?
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` A Well, no, we don't -- we don't know that
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`because they are here predicting the occurrence of a
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`measuring the driver's inputs, for example throttle
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`throttle or brake, isn't that right?
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` MR. BITTMAN: Object to form.
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` A No, that's not true. What they're doing
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`could see that frequency and the idea that there is
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`period, the time of day, the distance. And I think
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`then they were looking at the counts. But that's
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`certainly not all that they would be predicting
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`there. This is just their way of showing you, yes,
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`you can predict this journey here.
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` Q All right. Let's -- I want to limit my
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`questions to the experiment. So does the experiment
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`track anything beyond GPS?
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` MR. BITTMAN: Objection, form.
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` A I think it does because of course you're
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` Q Okay. Where in the document does it say
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`that the -- that the experiment includes things
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`other than GPS?
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` MR. BITTMAN: Objection, form.
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` Q Please show me.
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` A Well again, as I previously said, they're
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`page 130, the idea that they already have these
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`other variables present, driver's input, throttle,
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`brake, speed of the engine, speed of the vehicle,
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`time of day, different values like that. And then
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`under the vehicle experiments, they were using the
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`GPS navigation system in order to see if, in fact,
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`they would have repeatable journeys that you would
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` Q The experiment --
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` Q The experiment itself --
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` MR. BITTMAN: Counsel, please.
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` Q -- is that right?
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` A Can I finish my answer then now?
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` Q Yeah, let's focus on the experimentation. I
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` A Okay. Well, actually I'm under the section
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`now -- Section 3 entitled "Vehicle Experiments."
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` Q All right. Let's talk about that.
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` A And if you look at that, "Data is required
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`throughout the project for investigation into
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`methods of vehicle use prediction." Okay. Vehicles
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`use, not just, you know, time of day, things like
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`that. They were using the data logger based around
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`a GPS navigation system in order to see if, in fact,
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`there is some repeatable driving patterns.
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`parameters, time of departure, journey time, speed
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`over ground derived from latitude and longitude.
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`They're not actually presenting that in those
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`figures. So they're monitoring, as always, more
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`parameters than just that.
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` Here, this is a proof of concept to show
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`that yes, in fact, there is some repeatability.
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`They actually talked about careful consideration has
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`chosen so that the main vehicle user represents a
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`subset of the UK driving population. And so they
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`were trying to find out is there some sort of
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`repeatability that they could determine and that
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`they could extract so that they could predict a
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`show you that there is, in fact, a predictable
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`journey. But they're, of course, keeping track of
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`the other parameters of the vehicle.
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` Q Where in Quigley does -- do the authors use
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`the other parameters of the vehicle to predict
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` A I think you misunderstand. One of ordinary
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`importance here is that by being able to predict a
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`repeatable kind of a journey, you know the throttle
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`brake pedal, the road load. You know these things
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`in your controller and now you're being able to
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`predict that yes, there's a high likelihood we're
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`vehicle. And so then we can then use that, as they
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` Q So my question --
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` A The point of the project is to do that -- is
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`to do that. What they're merely doing at the end
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`here on their preliminary findings is showing us
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`graphically that yes, indeed you can predict a
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`journey here. There's a very repeatable journey.
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` But of course, there's more to that journey
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`than just the figures, those histograms let's say in
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`Figure 7. That's just an indication, yes, there is
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`a predictable journey there. But they're of course
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`monitoring and keeping track of all the other
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`parameters because that's what they're going to use
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`want you to try to find something in a document. If
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`I ask you about what someone skilled in the art
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`understands, that would be a different question.
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` So I want to ask you in terms of what is
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`literally written in the document, what does Quigley
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`predict using the throttle and brake?
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` MR. BITTMAN: Objection to form.
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` A That's part of the journey. And literally
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`in the document, as I read before, that's part of --
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`part of what would be present in a particular
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`journey would be the driver's operational inputs,
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`for example; engine speeds, the road speeds, things
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` So the vehicles experiment is just to verify
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`that we can, in fact, predict a journey where we
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`a validation of the fact that they can, in fact,
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` Q All right. But what information is actually
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` A Again, as I said, they're monitoring all
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`whether or not they did additional studies?
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` A I guess I don't feel the need to here
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` Q It's a yes or no, just a "yes" or "no"
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`double-check the authors. Although I do believe
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`I've probably seen something else by Dr. Jones. But
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` Q So you yourself, not a hypothetical person,
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`but you yourself did not look for any additional
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`that right?
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` A In regards to this, I don't remember feeling
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` Q Okay. So that means you did not?
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` A So I said -- I think I said I didn't feel
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` Q Okay. All right. If you can go to
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`below the figure. Are you there?
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` A Yes.
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` Q It says, "To enable a hybrid electric power
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`journey duration, journey distance, time of
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` A Yes, I do.
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` Q And these are examples of journey parameters
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`that Quigley predicts, is that right?
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` A Again it goes on to say, "Unfortunately,
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`journey duration, journey distance, time of
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`departure, and journey destination, right?
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` A They're trying to recognize the journey so
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`departure and journey destination that Quigley
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`explicitly says are intelligently estimated?
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` A Again, they do go on to talk about the
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`these control parameters for the vehicle because
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` Q All right. In the actual document itself,
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`what other things are intelligently estimated beyond
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`the parameters of journey duration, journey
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`distance, time of departure and journey destination?
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` A Well, they're going to estimate based on the
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`driver's operational inputs of throttle and brake,
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`et cetera. They're going to be estimating what the
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`road load requirements would be for that particular
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`journey, okay, because otherwise, if you go back to
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`just even the abstract of the paper, the overview,
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`if you will, the abstract say, "This paper outlines
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`controller for hybrid electric vehicles. Such a
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`controller would be required to manage energy flow
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`through the hybrid drive train and for optimum
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`control would require a number of parameters
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`This paper presents work to attempt to predict these
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`knowledge base of previous journey histories."
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` So they're talking about the controller
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`would be required to manage the energy flow through
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`that requires specifically a knowledge of more than
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`That's requiring the knowledge of the road load
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`requirements or the power requirements during that
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` Q Okay. Can you show me somewhere in Quigley
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`where it says that the controller predicts anything
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`related to road load other than saying that it's
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`your opinion that it's an input to the controller?
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` A Otherwise if you didn't do that, you
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`couldn't manage the energy flow through the hybrid
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`ordinary skill in the art, this is pretty typical of
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`what you're doing, okay.
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` Let me find some more here. They talk about
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`-- on page 130, they talk about -- under the figure
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`on the left, Figure 1, which is just a simple
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`description of a parallel hybrid electric vehicle,
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`they talk about towards the end of that first
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`could provide benefits" -- they're talking about
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`some prior work -- "over a limited range of
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`operation, but in order to obtain better performance
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`over the complete range of operation, a method of
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`adapting the fuzzy rules would be required."
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` Again, they're looking at this idea of how
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`you apportion the power requirements of the vehicle
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`to the motor and to the engine for this parallel
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`drive hybrid vehicle. And you can't do that. One
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`only way you can do that is by understanding what
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` Q So it's your opinion that Quigley inherently
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`predicts road load information, is that your
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` MR. BITTMAN: Objection to form.
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` Q And one of skill in the art would know you
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`can't do it any other way?
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` A I'm not a lawyer, but I do recognize that
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`inherently as kind of a term of the law, so I don't
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`know that I want to go down that road. But I'm --
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`what I mean saying is one of ordinary skill in the
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`that you're trying to recognize these journeys
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`load requirements are for the vehicle so that you
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`can then intelligently optimize your control system,
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`as they say is their goal in the abstract of the
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` Q Okay. But you can't point me to any place
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`respect to road load is predicted other than your
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`point that there's an input of brake and throttle,
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`isn't that right?
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` A So again, I guess if we go under that
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`previously" -- it starts out in the very first
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` Talking about the 1st generation controller,
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`they talk about the types of sensors, the parameters
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`that they're going to be measuring, driver's
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`operational input, throttle, brake. So that's all
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`part of reliably trying to estimate or predict
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`what's going to occur.
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` Q So what does Quigley predict what's going to
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` A A particular journey. And again, as they
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`order to do this, the information available to the
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`controller could take one of two forms." And when
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`inputs. So all of those are what they're using as
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`part of their prediction for, you know, when they
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`recognize they're entering a different journey,
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`let's say journey A. Those are the things that
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` Q All right. Let's go back to -- this is
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`page 132. I think you said earlier that the
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`mischaracterizes testimony.
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` A Again, they're implementing a data recorder
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` Q The simple question is are the graphs on the
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`data, yes or no?
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` A So the graphs in Figure 5 is the raw data
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`though. So the speed is calculated from this data,
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`right? As it says, speed over ground and bearing
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` A Yes, yes, because again they're verifying
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`generation control is not even going to use a GPS,
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`right. So they're using the GPS as a separate means
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`of detecting the location of the vehicle, is there a
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`journey that is repeatable here.
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` So they're using that as a means of
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`verifying what their 1st generation, their
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`isn't going to be present in the actual operating
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`vehicle. That's just an experimental device to help
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`you confirm what you're trying to do with the actual
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`vehicle. Do you understand what I mean?
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` It's like when I run an engine in my lab,
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`right. I add extra transducers. They're
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`system of the engine. Why do I do that? Because
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`I'm trying to verify that, in fact, the control
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`it is or the way it was intended to function. So
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`this is an external verification using a GPS data
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` Q So none of the experiments have results that
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`parameters, right?
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` A No. What I'm saying -- no, what I'm saying
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`the data logger is your device to confirm that, in
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