CTNF 18/869,928 CTNF 70782 DETAILED ACTION Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status 07-03-aia AIA 15-10-aia The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA. Priority 02-26 AIA Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55. Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102 07-06 AIA 15-10-15 In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status. 07-07-aia AIA 07-07 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 – 07-08-aia AIA (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. 07-15 AIA Claim (s) 1 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102( a)(1 ) as being anticipated by Bruls et al (US 20210258554 A1 in IDS) . Regarding Claim 1, Bruls et al teaches an information processing apparatus comprising: an attention-position specifying unit that specifies, in a virtual space that includes virtual objects displayed on user terminals, an attention position to which users using the user terminals pay attention (see Paragraph 0080, “ The sensor input processor 201 is arranged to combine the head pose indicator and the eye pose indicator to generate a gaze indication. The point where the optical axes of the eyes meet is known as the gaze point and the gaze indication is indicative of this gaze point. The gaze indication may specifically indicate a direction to the gaze point from the current viewer position and may typically be indicative of both the direction and distance to the gaze point. ...”); a non-attention object extraction unit that extracts as a non-attention object from the virtual objects, a virtual object for which a number of times of being specified as the attention position does not meet a criterion (see Paragraph [0148] When determining the visual attention region, the visual attention processor 205 may consider the stored user viewing behavior and may specifically bias the selection/determination of the visual attention region towards regions/objects that have a higher view frequency. For example, for a given viewer pose and gaze point, the visual attention processor 205 may determine a suitable viewport and may identify some potential candidate scene objects within this viewport. It may then select one of the objects as the visual attention region depending on how close the gaze point is to the individual scene object and on how often the scene objects have previously been selected as visual attention region. The bias towards “popular” scene objects may result in a scene object being selected which is not the closest object to the gaze point but which is a more likely candidate than the closest object.”); (see Paragraph (0145] In many embodiments, the image data generator 209 may be arranged to switch between two quality levels depending on the confidence measure, such as e.g. between a high quality level associated with visual attention region image data and a low quality level associated with non-visual attention region image data. However, in many embodiments, the image data generator 209 may be arranged to switch between many different quality levels depending on the confidence measure.”) and a data reduction unit that reduces an amount of data for displaying the extracted non-attention object on the user terminals (see Paragraph [0106] In the apparatus of FIG. 2, the image data generator 209 is further coupled to the visual attention processor 205 from which it receives information of the determined visual attention region. The image data generator 209 is arranged to adapt the quality of different parts of the generated image data in response to the visual attention region. Specifically, the image data generator 209 is arranged to set the quality such that the quality is higher for the visual attention region than (at least some parts) outside of the visual attention region . Thus, the image data generator 209 may generate the image data to have a varying image quality with the image quality of the generated image data for the visual attention region is higher than for (at least part of the) image data representing the outside the visual attention region.”) . Allowable Subject Matter 12-151-08 AIA 07-43 12-51-08 6. Claim s 2-7 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 7. Examiner cites particular columns and line numbers in the references as applied to the claims below for the convenience of the applicant. Although the specified citations are representative of the teachings in the art and are applied to the specific limitations within the individual claim, other passages and figures may apply as well. It is respectfully requested that, in preparing responses, the applicant fully consider the references in entirety as potentially teaching all or part of the claimed invention, as well as the context of the passage as taught by the prior art or disclosed by the examiner. 8. It is noted that any citation to specific pages, columns, figures, or lines in the prior art references any interpretation of the references should not be considered to be limiting in any way. A reference is relevant for all it contains and may be relied upon for all that it would have reasonably suggested to one having ordinary skill in the art. In re Heck, 699 F.2d 1331-33, 216 USPQ 1038-39 (Fed. Cir. 1983) (quoting In re Lemelson, 397 F.2d 1006, 1009, 158 USPQ 275, 277 (CCPA 1968)). Examiner’s Note 9. Examiner has cited particular paragraphs/columns and line numbers or figures in the references as applied to the claims below for the convenience of the applicant. Although the specified citations are representative of the teachings in the art and are applied to the specific limitations within the individual claim, other passages and figures may apply as well. It is respectfully requested from the applicant, in preparing the responses, to fully consider the references in their entirety as potentially teaching all or part of the claimed invention, as well as the context of the passage as taught by the prior art or disclosed by the examiner. Applicant is reminded that the Examiner is entitled to give the broadest reasonable interpretation to the language of the claims. Furthermore, the Examiner is not limited to Applicant’s definition which is not specifically set forth in the claims. 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