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 .
Drawings
The drawings are objected to because the term “pop” should be changed to read “prop” in figure 14.
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Specification
The abstract of the disclosure is objected to because said Abstract is lengthy (approx. 170 words). A corrected abstract of the disclosure is required and must be presented on a separate sheet, apart from any other text. See MPEP § 608.01(b).
Applicant is reminded of the proper language and format for an abstract of the disclosure.
The abstract should be in narrative form and generally limited to a single paragraph on a separate sheet within the range of 50 to 150 words in length. The abstract should describe the disclosure sufficiently to assist readers in deciding whether there is a need for consulting the full patent text for details.
The language should be clear and concise and should not repeat information given in the title. It should avoid using phrases which can be implied, such as, “The disclosure concerns,” “The disclosure defined by this invention,” “The disclosure describes,” etc. In addition, the form and legal phraseology often used in patent claims, such as “means” and “said,” should be avoided.
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)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1, 2, 12, 13, 15 and 19 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Venshtain (US 11,069,094 B1).
Regarding claim 1, Venshtain discloses a method for processing a virtual prop (AR makeup system 102 can add eyelashes, piercings, or other accessories to a user's face in a video stream by adding a textured accessory mesh to the face-tracking mesh, col. 9, lines 46-49), comprising:
on the basis of three-dimensional face vertex data, acquiring target positions of a first type of position vertexes of the virtual prop (AR makeup system 102 can pin one or more corners or edges to the face mesh 500 by connecting vertices of the accessory mesh 502 to vertices of the face mesh 500, col. 16, line 67 – col. 17, line 2);
on the basis of a posture change of a target object corresponding to the virtual prop, attribute information of the virtual prop, and a morphological parameter of the virtual prop in an initial frame (AR makeup system 102 generates the accessory mesh 502 to have a shape that approximates the shape of the accessory, col. 16, lines 49-52), determining target positions of a second type of position vertexes of the virtual prop (allow the AR makeup system 102 to pose or deform the accessory mesh 502 based on the movement of the root nodes, col. 17, lines 33-35);
on the basis of the target positions of the first type of position vertexes, the target positions of the second type of position vertexes, and position information of the vertexes of the virtual prop in a historical frame (Examiner articulates that this is implied via track movement and deformation, i.e., pose or deform based on movement, col. 17, lines 34-35),
acquiring target positions of the vertexes of the virtual prop in a current frame (per-frame update and animation is implied via tracked movement); and
displaying the virtual prop in the current frame, on the basis of the target positions of the vertexes of the virtual prop in the current frame (the AR makeup system 102 renders the accessory in the augmented reality environment by assigning an accessory texture 504 to the accessory mesh 502, col. 17, lines 6-9).
Regarding claim 2, Venshtain discloses the method of claim 1, wherein, on the basis of the target positions of the first type of position vertexes, the target positions of the second type of position vertexes, and position information of the vertexes of the virtual prop in a historical frame, acquiring target positions of the vertexes of the virtual prop in a current frame (in response to receiving a request to add an eyelash accessory to the user's face, the AR makeup system generates an accessory mesh 502 corresponding to the eyelash accessory. Col. 16, lines 55-62), comprises:
on the basis of the target positions of the first type of position vertexes, the target positions of the second type of position vertexes, position information of vertexes in an initial mesh, and position information of vertexes in a previous frame mesh (pin one or more corners or edges to the face mesh 500 by connecting vertices, col. 17, lines 2-5), acquiring the target positions of the vertexes of the virtual prop in the current frame (movable joints 506a-506c allow the AR makeup system 102 to pose or deform the accessory mesh 502 based on the movement of the root nodes, col. 17, lines 33-35), wherein the initial mesh is a mesh composed of vertexes of the virtual prop in an initial frame, and the previous frame mesh is a mesh composed of vertexes in the virtual prop in a previous frame (the AR makeup system 102 generates the accessory mesh 502 to have a shape that approximates the shape of the accessory (e.g., a strip-like mesh for eyelashes), col. 16, lines 49-52).
Regarding claim 10, Venshtain discloses the method of claim 1, wherein, the virtual prop is eyelashes, and the target object is an eye (the AR makeup system 102 tracks a user's face within a field of view of an image capture device based on identifying facial features (e.g., eyes, nose, mouth), face edges, etc., col. 7, lines 25-28).
Claim 12, a device claim, is rejected for the same reason as claim 1.
Claim 13, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium claim, is rejected for the same reason as claim 1.
Claim 15, a device claim, is rejected for the same reason as claim 2.
Claim 19, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium claim, is rejected for the same reason as claim 2.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-9, 16-18, and 20-22 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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/THOMAS J LETT/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2611