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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
Claim(s) 1-10 and 13-16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102a1 as being anticipated by Black (20190333267).
Regarding claim 1, Black discloses a method for performing at least one measurement on a 3D reconstruction of a body using a computer system, wherein the computer system has access to a parametric body model, PBM, template and to a measurement definition (abstract and par. 294-295);
the PBM template comprises a three dimensional, 3D, representation of a surface of a template body and is configured to be parametrized at least with respect to shape and pose; the measurement definition defines one or more measurement instructions that are each associated with at least one measurement point defined with respect to the PBM template (abstract, pars. 122, 129, 294-298);
the method comprising: receiving the 3D reconstruction (par. 294);
generating a PBM instance by fitting the PBM template to the 3D reconstruction at least with respect to a body pose and a body shape (par. 120-122, 129 and 295, different shape and pose);
mapping the one or more measurement instructions to the PBM instance; and performing a measurement according to at least one of the one or more mapped measurement instructions (par. 294);
wherein at least one measurement instruction of the one or more measurement instructions is given as a definition of a volume limited by a defined part of the surface of the template body and a two-dimensional boundary intersecting with the surface, the boundary being defined in relation to an anchor measurement point that is defined with respect to the PBM template, wherein mapping said at least one measurement instruction to the PBM instance includes mapping of said anchor measurement point to the PBM instance (par. 296-299); and
the two-dimensional boundary intersecting with the surface is defined as one of the following: an intersection of a plane with the surface, the plane being associated with the anchor measurement point; a cycle on the surface and an auxiliary surface limited by the cycle, the cycle being defined in the at least one measurement instruction (par. 294 and 299).
Regarding claim 2, see pars. 290-294.
Regarding claim 4, see par. 295.
Regarding clam 5, see pars. 296-298.
Regarding claim 6, see par. 290, 293-294.
Regarding claim 7, see pars. 294 and 297-298.
Regarding claim 8, see par. 298.
Regarding claim 9 see pars. 296 and 298.
Regarding claim 10, see par. 294.
Regarding claim 13, see pars. 122, 129 and 297.
Regarding claim 14, see the abstract.
Regarding claim 15, see the rejection of claim 1.
Regarding claim 16, see pars. 294 and 299.
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) 11-12 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Black in view of Black2 (20100111370).
Regarding claim 11, Black2 teaches wherein receiving the body reconstruction comprises receiving a reference measure of the body reconstruction (pars. 78-80 and 105-108, calibration and computation).
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 Black the ability take make reference measurements as taught by Black2 in order to have a measured reference template.
Regarding claim 12, pars. 300302 of Black teach a machine learning for measurement and shape pars. 292-293 of Black2 teach training scans for slice mapping to plane parameters.
Conclusion
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/HADI AKHAVANNIK/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2676