Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Applicant(s) Response to Official Action
[1] The response filed on January 23, 2026 has been entered and made of record.
Response to Arguments
[2] Presented arguments have been fully considered but are held unpersuasive. Examiner’s response to the presented arguments follows below.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
Summary of Arguments:
Chen, alone or combined with Tourapis, does not teach or suggest:
capturing an interlaced video rendered on a multiview display of the sender client device
separate views being concatenated to generate a tiled frame of a tiled video, or
transmitting the tiled video to a receiver client device, the tiled video being compressed
Office action has not established sufficient motivation to combine Tourapis and Chen.
Examiner’s Response:
Tourapis combined with Chen teaches:
Capturing an interlaced video rendered on a multiview display of the sender client device because the claim language does not require capturing an actively displayed content (i.e. screen capture) or the capturing and rendering to happen simultaneously. Also, capturing an interlaced video as defined in the applicant's specification encompasses retrieving video data for items displayed or about to be displayed. See specification para. 0039 which states “[i]nterlaced frames 211 may be stored in graphics memory (e.g., texture memory, memory accessible to a graphic processor, memory that stores an output that is rendered). Interlaced frames 211 may be captured by copying or otherwise accessing texture data that represents rendered frames (e.g., frames that are rendered or about to be rendered).” Therefore, the claim language only requires retrieving video data and displaying the video data. Capturing an interlaced video is taught by Tourapis because the video data is being received in fig. 4. But, Tourapis does not disclose the data being rendered on a multiview display of the sender client device. However, Chen discloses this feature in paras. 0030 and 0035. Please see allowable subject matter section below for examiner’s suggestion on how to overcome the prior art in accordance to applicant’s arguments.
Chen discloses separate views being concatenated to generate a tiled frame of a tiled video (i.e. side by side) in 184 of Fig. 4.
Chen discloses transmitting the tiled video (i.e. 184) to a receiver client device (i.e. 14), the tiled video being compressed (i.e. processed by encoder 20) in figs. 1 and 4.
There is sufficient motivation to combine Tourapis and Chen because the both inventions are related to stereoscopic video distribution. Chen discloses the advantage of being scalable by allowing various devices to display stereoscopic video data in para. 0039.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
[3] All 103 rejections made in the prior office action dated October 24, 2025 as applicable to currently pending claims are incorporated herein by reference.
Allowable Subject Matter
[4] All allowable subject matter indication made in the prior office action dated October 24, 2025 as applicable to currently pending claims are incorporated herein by reference.
[5] Examiner suggest the following amendments to overcome the prior art applied. However, further search and consideration is needed to confirm allowability in the future actions.
A method of streaming multiview video by a sender client device, the method comprising:
rendering an interlaced frame of an interlaced video on a multiview display of the sender client device, the interlaced frame being formatted as spatially multiplexed views defined by a multiview configuration having a first number of views;
capturing the interlaced frame in real time with the rendering of the interlaced frame on the multiview display,the capturing including an instruction sent to a graphics pipeline to access texture data stored in a graphics memory that represents the interlaced frame;
deinterlacing the spatially multiplexed views of the interlaced frame into separate views, the separate views being concatenated to generate a tiled frame of a tiled video; and
transmitting the tiled video, in real time with the rendering of the interlaced frame on the multiview display, to a receiver client device, the tiled video being compressed.
Conclusion
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/SATH V PERUNGAVOOR/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2488