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The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC §103
1. 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.
Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Veiga et al (Pub. NO.: US 2018/0129262 A1; hereinafter Veiga) in view of Avrahami et al (Patent No.: US 9,491,374 B1; hereinafter Avrahami)
Consider claims 1, 11, and 20 Veiga clearly shows and discloses a product, a system, a method, the method comprising: identifying, using an image capture switching system, a user is utilizing a first display having an associated first image capture device and a second display having an associated second image capture device and identifying that the first image capture device is capturing video of the user (fig. 2A, labels: 24A for first display, 24B for second display, 20A first image capture, 20B second image capture; The sensor devices 20 may further include forward facing cameras 30) (paragraphs: 0021-0022); detecting, using an image capture switching system, that a point of focus of the user has moved from the first display to the second display (a user may only be able to view one of the display devices of the pair of display devices 24A and 24B at a time. Thus, when the orientation module 42 detects that the current angular orientation 56 is such an orientation, the computer program 38 is further configured to determine a current user focus 58 indicating that a first display device of the pair of display devices 24A and 24B is being viewed by the user, and that a second display device of the pair of display devices 24A and 24B is not being viewed by the user) (paragraphs: 0030, 0034 and claims: 1 and 19); and switching, based upon the detecting, a video capture input from the first image capture device associated with the first display to the second image capture device associated with the second display (the processor 16 may send the new current user focus to the augmented reality game application. Upon receiving the new current user focus, the augmented reality game application may switch to augmenting images taken by the second camera associated with the second display device that is now facing away from the user, and display the augmented images on the first display device that now has the current user focus in this specific example) (paragraphs: 0034 and claim 14) however, Veiga does not disclose another example for detecting, using an image capture switching system, that a point of focus of the user has moved from the first display to the second display.
In the same field of endeavor, Avrahami clearly discloses another example for detecting, using an image capture switching system, that a point of focus of the user has moved from the first display to the second display (analyzing a video of an off-display environment of the first camera and the second camera, detecting a focus area to display in the videoconference, and performing the action, wherein the action comprises determining to switch the videoconference from the first camera to the second camera when the second camera has a view of the focus area with less obstruction and a higher degree of view than the first camera) (col. 2, lines 34-44, col. 5, lines 4-10, lines 45-56, col. 6, lines 16-45 and claim 9).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made to incorporate the teaching of Avrahami into teaching of Veiga for the purpose of switching a video capture input from the first image capture device associated with the first display to the second image capture device associated with the second display based on gaze tracking.
Consider claims 2 and 12, Veiga and Avrahami clearly show the method and the system, wherein the detecting comprises utilizing gaze tracking (Avrahami: col. 5, lines 4-10, lines 45-56, col. 6, lines 16-45).
Consider claims 3 and 13, Veiga and Avrahami clearly show the method and the system, wherein the detecting comprises utilizing facial recognition and detecting movement of the head of the user based upon a change in a position of a face of the user (Avrahami: col. 5, lines 45-56, col. 6, lines 32-45).
Consider claims 4 and 14, Veiga and Avrahami clearly show the method and the system, wherein the detecting comprises detecting an input provided by the user at a device corresponding to the second display (Veiga: paragraph: 0018 and 0028).
Consider claims 5, and 15, Veiga and Avrahami clearly show the method and the system, wherein the detecting comprises utilizing sensors located on a head of the user (Veiga: paragraph: 0019, 0021-0022).
Consider claims 6, and 16, Veiga and Avrahami clearly show the method and the system, wherein the switching is responsive to a length of time of the detecting exceeding a predetermined threshold length of time (Avrahami: col. 2, lines 26-45).
Consider claims 7, and 17, Veiga and Avrahami clearly show the method and the system, wherein the switching occurs in real-time and wherein a video captured from the second image capture device is pushed as a video output in real-time (Veiga: paragraph: 0034).
Consider claims 8, and 18, Veiga and Avrahami clearly show the method and the system, wherein the switching comprises adjusting a background of the user to match a first background of the user associated with the first image capture device (Avrahami: fig. 1 and fig. 2).
Consider claims 9 and 19, Veiga and Avrahami clearly show the method and the system, wherein the capturing of the video is responsive to activation of a video conferencing application (Avrahami: abstract and fig. 1 and fig. 2).
Conclusion
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/AMAL S ZENATI/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2693
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