DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Claim Objections
Claim 2 objected to because of the following informalities: Concluding should be comprising. Appropriate correction is required.
In claim 2, the artificial intelligence model should be an artificial intelligence model.
In claim 3, the first noise should be a first noise, and a first noise should be the first noise.
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.
Claim(s) 1,2 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102a1 as being anticipated by Haro (US 20230146178 A1).
As per claim 1, Haro discloses a harmonizing system for optimizing sound in content, the system, comprising: a user terminal (any of 730) configured to transmit and receive video content containing sound information (the audio and video information 720,722,724,726),
the user terminal including:
a display unit configured to display the video content (as shown in the fig);
a speaker configured to load the sound information and output sound (required to output the audio as per the abstract); and
a user input unit configured for user input (the means of the user interacting functions per para 31,32).
As per claim 2, the harmonizing system according to claim 1, further comprising:
a server network N connected to the user terminal,
the server concluding (comprising):
a communication unit (704);
a storage unit (memory for the processors used by the server); and
a processor (the server is processor based) configured:
to display at least one platform screen of a website (para 170, webpage for a gaze function) that provides an execution of the artificial intelligence model (the terminal uses the AI model for the same gaze function)
or
an application through a predetermined API (the above cited gaze function also uses an application through an api para 82),
when receiving a request for a sound harmonization based on an artificial intelligence model from the user terminal (any of the user interaction with the gaze function is a request for sound harmonization/processing),
to store a first sound data that includes the first waveform information in the storage unit by identifying a first waveform information that includes a frequency range and volume level based on a first sound information included in the first video content, when receiving a first video content of a plurality of video contents from the user terminal through the platform (video/audio contents are received via 724,720 and the server implements audio processing/harmonization, using an equalizer per para 78 which comprises frequency bands/ranges and associated intensities/volume level, where all cited parameters must be stored in a storage unit order to be used as per para 78)
to generate a second sound data that applies a first sound mastering preset corresponding to the first waveform information of a plurality of sound mastering presets that are previously stored (para. 78: the sound equalizer parameters can include at least 5 frequency bands and their associated intensities, which is a preset), based on the first sound data (the equalizer is applied to and based on input sound data), in the storage unit, and to transmit a first harmonic content (the frequency information of the equalizer is transmitted harmonic content used to process the first sound data) that the second sound data (the processed first sound data) is synchronized with the first video content to the user terminal (the functions and features of the system of Fig. 7a can be performed synchronously per para 230, which includes harmonic content/equalizer/gaze processing described above to produce the second sound data, and the first video content received as 726 in Fig. 7a.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3 objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable over the prior art of record if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to ALEXANDER KRZYSTAN whose telephone number is 571-272-7498, and whose email address is alexander.krzystan@uspto.gov
The examiner can usually be reached on m-f 7:30-4:00 est.
If attempts to reach the examiner by telephone or email are unsuccessful, the examiner’s supervisor, Fan Tsang can be reached on (571) 272-7547.
The fax phone numbers for the organization where this application or proceeding is assigned are 571-273-8300 for regular communications and 571-273-8300 for After Final communications.
/ALEXANDER KRZYSTAN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2653
Examiner Alexander Krzystan
May 23, 2003