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 .
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.
CLAIM STATUS
Claim 7 is canceled. Claims 1-6 and 8-19 are pending.
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, 8 and 9 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Wang et al (12,033,374).
Regarding claims 1, 8 and 9 Wang discloses,
obtaining an image to be processed (note fig. 2 block s201 and col. 5 lines 16-17; and
inputting the image to be processed (note S204 first input image) to an image attribute parameter changing model (note S204, extracted attribute feature using feature transformation network) to obtain a target image (note fig. 2, block 205, output image based on targe image feature), wherein a target attribute parameter value of the target image is different from a target attribute parameter value of the image to be processed (note col. 5 lines 63- col 6 lines 2, attribute of second image and content feature of a first image), and the target attribute parameter value of the target image and the target attribute parameter value of the image to be processed correspond to different target attribute representation states (note col. 6 lines 3-37, feature fusion and attribute feature).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-6 and 10-19 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.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter for dependent claims 2, 10 and 15. Prior art could not be found for the features performing, based on an image sample pair, model training in a generative adversarial manner to obtain the image attribute parameter changing model; wherein the image sample pair comprises an original sample image generated by a pre- trained image generator, and a target sample image corresponding to the original sample image, which is obtained by decoding, by the pre-trained image generator, target encoded features, wherein the target encoded features are features obtained by performing feature encoding on the original sample image and adjusting target attribute parameters for an image feature encoding result; wherein a target attribute representation state of the original sample image is different from a target attribute representation state of the target sample image corresponding to the original sample image. These features and combination with other features could not be found in the prior art. Claims 3-6, 11-14 and 16-19 depend on claims 2, 10 and 15, respectively. Therefore are also objected.
Related Prior Art
Abdal et al (11,640,684) obtaining an image to be processed (note fig. 5, block 500 selecting and original image).
Lin et al (11,875,221) inputting the image to be processed (note fig. 2a block 202) to an image attribute parameter changing model to obtain a target image (note fig. 2a block 210).
Conclusion
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G.D.
July 10, 2026
/GREGORY M DESIRE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2676
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