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DETAILED ACTION
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
A request for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, including the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e), was filed in this application after final rejection. Since this application is eligible for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114, and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the finality of the previous Office action has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114. Applicant’s submission filed on 12/25/2025 has been entered.
Claim Interpretation under 35 USC § 112
The invocation of section 35 U.S.C. 112(f) with regards to the interpretation of claims 1-5 is maintained.
Response to Arguments
4. Applicant's arguments with respect to the rejections of claims 1-6 have been considered but are moot in view of new ground of rejection.
Response to Amendment
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
5. The text of those sections of Title 35, U.S. Code not included in this section can be found in a prior Office action.
6. Claims 1-5 are rejected under AIA 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Thompson et al. (US Publication 2019/0076741) in view of Hoelz et al. (US Publication 2011/0099069), and further in view of San Pedro et al. (US Publication 2022/0172586), Wu (US Publication 2011/0252160), and Devine et al. (US Publication 2019/0339822).
Regarding claim 1, Thompson discloses a video editing device (Thompson, fig. 3, interleaver service unit 114), comprising:
a storage unit for storing a plurality of raw videos and recorded audio data, which are associated with each other, wherein the raw videos are obtained by capturing videos of one event by a plurality of video capturing devices, and wherein the recorded audio data is recorded during capturing of each raw video, the raw videos being unedited raw videos that were previously used in and to create a commercial edited video work relating to the event and edited for inclusion therein based on a professional editing standard (Thompson, fig’s 6 and 8, para’s 0089-0092, 0111-0118, a unit for storing video and corresponding recorded audio captured from multiple video feeds at an event);
a video editing unit configured to extract, from the storage, a predetermined number of raw videos to edit the predetermined number of raw videos extracted for creating an edited video of the event specific to a user (Thompson, fig’s 6 and 8, para’s 0086-0092, 0111-0118, a unit for editing and segmenting the video);
a control unit operating to transmit, to the user terminal, the recorded audio data that is related to the raw videos used in the edited video (Thompson, fig’s 6 and 8, para’s 0090-0094, 0111-0118, a unit for receiving recorded audio and aligning the recorded audio with video, and para. 0056, causing the customized content 116 to be served/transmitted to a client device 118),
wherein the control unit is configured to share the edited video with an other user to transmit the edited video to a user terminal of the other user (Thompson, para. 0170, a social media block 1210 may allow a user to communicate with others, and to share information and/or clips received from and stored at the interleaver).
Thompson does not explicitly disclose:
the raw videos being unedited raw videos that were previously used in and to create a commercial edited video work relating to the event and edited for inclusion therein based on a professional editing standard;
a receiving unit for receiving from a user terminal a user editing standard, a user editing standard, the user editing standard being different than the professional editing standard and based on a preference of a user and specific to the user;
a video editing unit configured to extract, from the storage, a predetermined number of raw videos that has relatively high degree of matching to the received user editing standard to edit the predetermined number of raw videos extracted for creating a user edited video of the event specific to the user;
wherein the control unit is configured to share, according to an instruction from the user terminal, the user edited video with an other user to transmit the user edited video to a user terminal of the other user.
Hoelz discloses the raw videos being unedited raw videos that were previously used in and to create a commercial edited video work relating to the event and edited for inclusion therein based on a professional editing standard (Hoelz, para’s 0021-0027, the video stream of an event can be edited to generate a commercial edited video production using professional or commercial network editing process/standard).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to incorporate Hoelz’s features into Thompson’s invention for enhancing user’s playback experience by editing video for different viewers.
Thompson-Hoelz discloses editing the video based on a professional editing standard, but does not explicitly disclose:
a receiving unit for receiving from a user terminal a user editing standard, a user editing standard, the user editing standard being different than the professional editing standard and based on a preference of a user and specific to the user;
a video editing unit configured to extract, from the storage, a predetermined number of raw videos that has relatively high degree of matching to the received user editing standard to edit the predetermined number of raw videos extracted for creating a user edited video of the event specific to the user;
wherein the control unit is configured to share, according to an instruction from the user terminal, the user edited video with an other user to transmit the user edited video to a user terminal of the other user.
SanPedro disclose:
a receiving unit for receiving from a user terminal a user editing standard, a user editing standard, the user editing standard being different than the professional editing standard (SanPedro, para. 0032, video managing system 120 can include a user interface to permit a user to configure watchlists 122 through a user client 108; the user may be prompted with login credentials before being permitted to configure watchlists 122. In some embodiments, video managing system 120 can further control how the user may configure watchlists 122 based on an access privilege possessed by an authenticated user; para’s 0078-0084, wherein a watchlist includes a plurality of indicators for events of interest and one or more associated processing policies; as such the professional editing standard is different from the process implemented by the video managing system);
a video editing unit configured to extract, from the storage, a predetermined number of raw videos that has relatively high degree of matching to the received user editing standard to edit the predetermined number of raw videos extracted for creating a user edited video of the event specific to the user (SanPedro, para’s 0078-0084, the video managing system analyzes the video footage using video analytics to tag a plurality of video segments of the video footage with metadata including one or more indicators of events of interest detected by the video analytics. The video managing system can be configured to request a video analytics system (e.g., video analytics system 112) separate from the video managing system to analyze the video footage. For example, the video managing system may transmit the video footage to the video analytics system. In other embodiments, the video managing system can implement a video analytics system (e.g., video analytics system 124) to run the video analytics; the video managing system can execute one or more object detection or facial detection algorithms to detect the first event of interest. In these embodiments, the video managing system can be configured to generate a confidence score indicating a likelihood that the first event was accurately detected in the first video segment. Then, the video managing system can associate the confidence score with the first indicator. The video managing system processes each video cluster of the one or more video clusters based on matching the one or more common indicators of each video cluster with indicators stored in a plurality of watchlists, wherein a watchlist includes a plurality of indicators for events of interest and one or more associated processing policies).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to incorporate SanPedro’s features into Thompson-Hoelz’s invention for enhancing user’s playback experience by editing video according to a specific n editing standard configured by the user.
Thompson-Hoelz-SanPedro does not explicitly disclose:
the user editing standard being different than the professional editing standard and based on a preference of a user and specific to the user;
wherein the control unit is configured to share, according to an instruction from the user terminal, the user edited video with an other user to transmit the user edited video to a user terminal of the other user.
Wu discloses the user editing standard being different than the professional editing standard and based on a preference of a user and specific to the user (Wu, para. 0039, ICG can use one or more of the following rules to optimize the content based on the user profile: scaling images with respect to user-defined ratios/sizes, formatting text based on user-defined preferences (e.g., size, location, font, etc.), optimizing content layout horizontally or vertically, removal and/or conversion of certain types of content based on user-preferences and/or applications executing (or resident) on the mobile device other than the browser, modification of content based on country and domain, modification of content based on mobile device (especially if the subscriber has multiple mobile devices) (pattern recognition can be executed to identify the closest pattern and then determine the associated rules for editing the content), adding further patterns and rules based on feedback from users, and classification of items within content (e.g., logos, advertisements) to enable further processing such as removal).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to incorporate Wu’s features into Thompson-Hoelz-SanPedro’s invention for enhancing user’s playback experience by generating video according to rules indicating specific user’s preference.
Thompson-Hoelz-SanPedro-Wu does not explicitly disclose but Devine discloses wherein the control unit is configured to share, according to an instruction from the user terminal, the user edited video with an other user to transmit the user edited video to a user terminal of the other user (Devine, para’s 0004-0014 and 0277-0287, allowing user to share content with other users in response to receiving an indication or a user input via a user interface).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to incorporate Devine’s features into Thompson-Hoelz-SanPedro-Wu’s invention for expressing user’s personal perspective via media suggestion to other users.
Regarding claim 2, Thompson-Hoelz-SanPedro-Wu-Devine discloses the video editing device according to claim 1, wherein some or all of the plurality of raw images to be stored in the storage are raw images to be discarded without being used in creating a video work (Thompson, para. 0104, frames with noises or blurred images may be isolated/removed as known in the art).
The motivation to combine well-known technique in the art with Thompson-Hoelz-SanPedro-Wu-Devine would have been to provide high quality edited video.
Regarding claim 3, Thompson-Hoelz-SanPedro-Wu-Devine discloses the video editing device according to claim 1, wherein metadata that allows content appearing in each scene to be indicated to is added to each of the plurality of raw videos to be stored in the storage (SanPedro, para’s 0078-0084, the video managing system analyzes the video footage using video analytics to tag a plurality of video segments of the video footage with metadata including one or more indicators of events of interest detected by the video analytics).
The motivation to combine the reference is the same as claim 1.
Claims 4-5 are rejected for the same reasons set forth in claim 1. Thompson-Hoelz-SanPedro-Wu-Devine discloses further discloses:
non-transitory, computer readable storage medium (Thompson, para. 0077; SanPedro, para. 0024 and 0094);
playing back the acquired user edited video in synchronization with the recorded audio data (Thompson, para. 0089-0094, aligning recorded audio with video).
7. Claim 6 is rejected under AIA 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Thompson-Hoelz-SanPedro-Wu-Devine, as applied to claim 1 above, in view of Ayalasomayajula et al. (US Publication 2016/0292511)
Regarding claim 6, Thompson-Hoelz-SanPedro-Wu-Devine discloses the video editing device according to claim 1.
Thompson-Hoelz-SanPedro-Wu-Devine does not explicitly disclose but Ayalasomayajula discloses wherein the editing device is configured to create the user edited video of the event by connecting the raw videos extracted from the storage in time-sequence to create the user edited video of the event specific to the user (Ayalasomayajula, para. 0054, the video editing module 320 can identify an ordered set of events occurring within a pre-determined period of time. Each event in the identified set of events can be associated with a best scene; if the identified set of events is chronologically ordered, the video editing module 320 can generate a video summary by combining video clips associated with each identified event in the order of the ordered set of events).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to incorporate Ayalasomayajula’s features into Thompson-Hoelz-SanPedro-Wu-Devine’s invention for enhancing user’s search experience by improving accessibility and providing a concise and logical narrative of specific events.
Conclusion
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/LOI H TRAN/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2484