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`Claims 1-7, 10-16, 19-20 and 22-25 are allowed.
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`Allowable Subject Matter
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`The following is an examiner’s statement of reasonsfor allowance:
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`Regarding independentclaims 1, 10 and 19, the instant application is directed to a
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`processor, method and non-transitory computer readable medium of information processing for
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`controlling a motion of an autonomous mobile machine/body. Each of the independentclaims,
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`combining certain well-knownfeaturesin the art, identifies the uniquely distinct features of:
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`“ ..detecting environmentinformation from sensordata;
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`detecting an avoidancepriority of a noise source according to the environment
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`information, wherein the avoidancepriority of the noise source is determined based on a
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`type of the noise source and a degree of influence on voice recognition accuracy, and the
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`avoidance priority includes four different avoidance priority categories;
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`generating map information corresponding to the environmentinformation; and
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`controlling a motion of an autonomous mobile body acting on a basis of the map
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`information and the avoidancepriority of the noise source.”
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`Theprior art of record, SATOet al. (US 2005/0195989) and CELIKELetal. (US
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`2019/0331522), provided numerousrelated teachings and techniques for processing information
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`to control a motion of mobile machine/robotincluding: (1) providing a robot comprising
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`detecting/gathering information around the robot regarding a person, ambient environment
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`changes, noise source around the robot, or direction information indicating the direction of a
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`noise source, image information, and distance information, including acoustic signals output
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`from microphonesand/or image information acquired by camera, detecting noise source around
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`the robot indicating direction of a noise source other than the target signal, distance information
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`from the robot, wherein any detected/determined information, such as direction, distance,
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`position, cause to reduce the influences of noise based on a type of the noise source (such as
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`related to direction, distance, position, tv set) of the noise source and voice recognition ratio with
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`improved/deduced influence of noise and/or accurately operating of the robot, outputting
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`direction information, phase difference, noise source direction, distance information, and/or
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`position of the noise source, and controlling or driving a move/movable portions of robat of an
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`operation based on the improved/deducedinfluence of the noise source, providing reducing the
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`noise component ofthe target signal or reducing the influence of noise mixed in the main signal
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`to generate/output a low-noise signal by subtracting the reference signal (favor to noise other
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`than a target signal) from the main signal Gavor to target signal}, indicating direction from which
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`acquired acoustic signal by microphone(s}, causing to generate a target signal with highest
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`probability or its opposite direction with lowest probability, using direction information for
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`ralating the operation unit to direct the microphone toward the person and/or making direction of
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`microphone comciding with the direction of the person and indicating the direction in which the
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`rmicrophone exhibits highest gam within its sound gathering range, and providing distance
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`information to sei the distance beiween the microphone and the person to be equal to or fess than
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`a predetermined value and io move the microphone/operating unit closer to the position of the
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`person; and (ii) providing measuring vibration and noise mapping to measure soundintensity
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`and/or particle velocity and/or sound pressure in at least one direction to control the vibration
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`measurement sensor and the noise measurementsensor, providing the vibration and acoustic
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`performancedata of the test object, identifying the areas on the test object that are problematic or
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`need to be studied, and controlling the operation of test objects, such as moving mechanical
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`systems under different conditions, wherein collecting data around 4 noise source and obtaining
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`noise map is/are based on localized noise source with sound mtensity. However, the combined
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`features as claimed/argued,are not anticipated by, nor made obviousoverthe priorart of the
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`October 15, 2024
`/QI HAN/
`Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2654
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