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 .
Response to Arguments
The arguments are persuasive. See the second action non-final below.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
Claim(s) 18-35 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over McMordie (20110063446) in view of Zhu (20200082544) in further view of Lin (20160171852).
Regarding claim 1, McMordie teaches image processing system, configured to receive: a first stream of images, at a first resolution, wherein: the first stream of images is received from a first image source (par. 6 and 38);
and the first stream of images comprises a first field of view of an environment; and a second stream of images, at a second resolution, wherein: the second resolution is lower than said first resolution (par. 4, 6 and 37-39);
the second stream of images is received from a second image source; and the second stream of images comprises a second field of view that overlaps with over half of the first with substantially the same field of view of said first image source (pars. 23-24 and 38-39, wide angle is over half);
a classifier configured to: receive the one or more locations for the at least one moving object (pars. 23-24 and 38-39);
identify a corresponding portion of a first image acquired from said first stream within a pre-determined period of time from when at substantially the same time at which the at least one moving objects were is localized from said second stream (see pars. 38-39);
return at least one classification for the at least one moving object based on the corresponding portion of the first image (pars. 38-39);
Zhu teaches where the image processing system comprises: a localizer component configured to localize at least one provide a location for moving object into one or more locations (pars. 48 and 56)
It would have been obvious prior to the effective filing date of the invention to one of ordinary skill in the art to include in McMordie the ability to have motion based roi determination as taught by Zhu because it is a more efficient way to find computer vision.
tracker configured to re-classify the at least one moving object when a size of the one or more locations for the at least one moving object increases (see pars. 41, 45, 50 and 57-60 of Zhu);
wherein the localizer component is configured to perform the localizing of the at least one moving object within images of said second stream of images; and wherein the localizer component is further configured to perform the localizing of the at least one moving object independently of classification of said at least one moving object (see par. 41 and 54-57 of Zhu).
independently of class within images of said second stream of images (pars. 41, 48, 50-56).
Lin teaches ROI boxes in successive images in pars. 7 and 24-25 and 52).
It would have been obvious prior to the effective filing date of the invention to one of ordinary skill in the art to include in Zhu and McMordie the ability to track motion between frames as taught by Lin. The reason is to allow the system to work on multiple frames.
Regarding claim 19, see pars. 11 and 29-30 and 37-41 of Lin.
Regarding claim 20, see pars. 13, 24 and 39 of Lin.
Regarding claim 21, see pars. 35-41 and 57 of Lin.
Regarding claim 22, see pars. 57 and 107 of Zhu.
Regarding claim 23, see par. 27 of Lin.
Regarding claim 24, see par. 28 of McMordie.
Regarding claim 25, see pars. 28-32 of McMordie and par. 8 of Lin.
Regarding claim 26, see par. 24-29 and 37-41 of Lin.
Regarding claim 27, see pars. 11 and 25 of Lin and pars. 59 of Zhu.
Regarding claim 28, see pars. 44-45 of Lin and pars. 2 and 86 of Zhu.
Regarding claim 29, see pars. 29-30 and 39 of Lin, accumulates location .
Regarding claim 30, see Zhu pars. 19 and 39.
Regarding claim 31, see Zhu pars. 33-37 and par. 10 of Lin.
Regarding claim 32, see par. 29 of Lin, dilation.
Regarding claim 33, see par. 28 of Lin and pars. 41 and 54-55 of Lin.
Regarding claims 34-35, see the rejection of claim 1.
Conclusion
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/HADI AKHAVANNIK/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2676
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