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 .
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1 – 19 are allowed.
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
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.
The factual inquiries for establishing a background for determining obviousness under 35 U.S.C. 103 are summarized as follows:
1. Determining the scope and contents of the prior art.
2. Ascertaining the differences between the prior art and the claims at issue.
3. Resolving the level of ordinary skill in the pertinent art.
4. Considering objective evidence present in the application indicating obviousness or nonobviousness.
Claim(s) 20 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Chen (US 20180004478 A1) in view of Cadet et al. (US Patent No. 12159351).
Regarding claim 20, Chen teaches an electronic device (¶6, “Generally speaking, gesture input refers to having an electronic device such as a computing system, video game console, smart appliance, etc., react to some gesture made by the player and captured by the electronic device.”), comprising:
a camera (See abstract, “Method for providing image of HMD user to a non-HMD user includes, receiving a first image of a user including the user's facial features captured by an external camera when the user is not wearing a head mounted display (HMD). A second image capturing a portion of the facial features of the user when the user is wearing the HMD is received.”);
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at least one display (See Fig. 1 of ¶26-¶32);
memory storing one or more computer programs (¶73); and
one or more processors communicatively coupled to the camera, […], the at least one display, and the memory (¶73, ¶28),
wherein the one or more computer programs include computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to (¶100 and ¶101):
detect, in a video obtained through the camera (¶97), a portion corresponding to a head-mounted display (HMD) device (See claim 1),
obtain, based on information received from the HMD device through […], a virtual object representing a body part covered by the HMD device (See claim 1), and
display, while displaying the video on the at least one display, at least portion of the virtual object on at least portion of the at least one display where the detected portion is displayed (See claim 1 and abstract) but doesn’t explicit disclose a communication circuit.
Cadet teaches a communication circuit; (See col. 12 line 65-67,” In some implementations, the one or more communication buses 804 include circuitry that interconnects and controls communications between system components.” Also see col. 12 line 44-64 and Fig. 7).
Therefore it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to combine Chen in view of Cadet as communication circuit (buses) are a predicable way to transfer information between different components in an electronic system. Furthermore buses are known components in a device and is known in the art, applying the known technique of using device to an electronic device would have yielded a predicable result.
Conclusion
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/ROBERT J CRADDOCK/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2618