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 .
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Claim Objections
Claim 6 is objected to because of the following informalities: There is a typographical error, “solution” in line 2 should be “resolution”. Appropriate correction is required.
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 –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1, 6, 9, 11, 12, 19, 21 and 22 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Yang et al. (CN 109063763).
With respect to claim 1, Yang et al. teach a processor configured to execute operations comprising (page 4, Experimental environment, Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-3770CPU):
extracting a color signal of a predetermined resolution from an input video (page 2; 2a) color space conversion, the input video sequence from RGB color space into YIQ color space)
generating an enhanced minute color signal, wherein the enhanced minute color signal is based on enhancing the color signal with a minute color change by applying a weighted enhanced time-frequency band-pass filter to the color signal (page 2; 2b the space pyramid, Gaussian/Laplacian pyramid hierarchical processing(Laplacian Pyramid is a multi-resolution image representation built using Gaussian pyramids and their differences to capture frequency bands, effectively acting like a set of bandpass filters), motion in the video can be refined so as to ensure video in small motion displacement to be amplified); and
synthesizing an enhanced video in which the minute color change in the input video is enhanced by using the color signal and the enhanced minute color signal (page 3, (5) composite video: after the amplification is sequence data to Gaussian/Laplacian pyramid reconstruction, and data corresponding to the original video to obtain video and amplified, then the amplified video data after the color space transformation, namely a YIQ color space back to RGB color space to output video data).
With respect to claim 9, Yang et al. teach the input video includes video data based on an RGB (Red-Green-Blue) signal (page 2; 2a) color space conversion, the input video sequence from RGB).
With respect to claim 11, Yang et al. teach that the color signal represents a color of red color, green color, or blue color, for enhancing the color (page 2; 2a) color space conversion, the input video sequence from RGB)
With respect to claim 12, Yang et al. teach that the synthesizing further comprises: synthesizing the enhanced video according to the color at least by adding the input video and the enhanced minute color signal (page 3, (5) composite video: after the amplification is sequence data to Gaussian/Laplacian pyramid reconstruction, and data corresponding to the original video to obtain video and amplified, then the amplified video data after the color space transformation, namely a YIQ color space back to RGB color space to output video data).
Claim 6 is rejected as same reason as claim 1 above.
Claim 19 is rejected as same reason as claim 9 above.
Claim 21 is rejected as same reason as claim 11 above.
Claim 22 is rejected as same reason as claim 12 above.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2, 3, 10, 17, 18 and 20 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable of rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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/RANDOLPH I CHU/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2667