Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
1. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
2. This Office action is sent in response to Applicant’s amendments/remarks received on November 25, 2025.
3. Claims 1-20 are pending in this application.
Terminal Disclaimer
4. The terminal disclaimer filed on November 25, 2025 disclaiming the terminal portion of any patent granted on this application which would extend beyond the expiration date of US Patent No. 11,140,328 B2, US Patent No. 11,754,662 B2 and US 12,135,383 B2 has been reviewed and is accepted. The terminal disclaimer has been recorded.
Information Disclosure Statement
5. The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted October 21,2025 is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
6. 35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
7. Claim 20 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claim does not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter because claim 20 is directed to a computer program product per se. Therefore, the claim is directed to a non-statutory subject matter. Examiner suggests that Applicant amends the claim to recite “non-transitory computer readable storage medium with instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform the steps of:…”.
Allowable Subject Matter
8. Claims 1-19 are allowed.
9. The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
Independent claim 1 has been found allowable because the cited prior art of record Mickelsen(US 2017/0264920 A1; cited in IDS by Applicant), Aman et al.(US 2015/0297949 A1) and Hall(US 2017/0259115 A1) fail to teach or reasonable suggest the combination of the following features:
“a communication interface configured to: receive, on a first recurring basis, a transmission of a central video feed from a camera, wherein the central video feed is at a first resolution such that the central video feed is partitionable into sub-views, each sub-view meeting a threshold resolution; and
obtain position information; and
a processor coupled to the communication interface and configured to:
determine, based at least on the obtained position information, a subset of each sequential frame associated with a first subject;
use the determined subset of each sequential frame associated with position information of the first subject to define a first sub-view of the central video feed, the first sub-view comprising for each of a plurality of frames comprising the central video feed a corresponding sub-frame associated with the first subject; and
cause the first sub-view to be communicated to a device configured to display the first sub-view”, as recited in independent claim 1.
Independent claim 19 has been found allowable because the cited prior art of record Mickelsen(US 2017/0264920 A1; cited in IDS by Applicant), Aman et al.(US 2015/0297949 A1) and Hall(US 2017/0259115 A1) fail to teach or reasonable suggest the combination of the following features:
“receiving, on a first recurring basis, a transmission of a central video feed from a camera, wherein the central video feed is at a first resolution such that the central video feed is partitionable into sub-views, each sub-view meeting a threshold resolution; and
obtaining position information;
determining, based at least on the obtained position information, a subset of each sequential frame associated with a first subject;
using the determined subset of each sequential frame associated with position information of the first subject to define a first sub-view of the central video feed, the first sub- view comprising for each of a plurality of frames comprising the central video feed a corresponding sub-frame associated with the first subject; and
causing the first sub-view to be communicated to a device configured to display the first sub-view”, as recited in independent claim 19.
Dependent claims 2-18 are allowed by virtue of their dependency to the independent claim 1.
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Conclusion
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/Ana Picon-Feliciano/Examiner, Art Unit 2482
/CHRISTOPHER S KELLEY/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2482
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