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 .
Specification
Title of the Invention
The title of the invention is not descriptive. A new title is required that is clearly indicative of the invention to which the claims are directed.
The following title is suggested:
METHOD FOR IMPROVING PASS-THROUGH VIEW BASED ON A RENDERED OBJECT IMAGE, CURRENT PER-FRAME INFORMATION AND CURRENT TRACKING INFORMATION OF A TARGET OBJECT
Response to Arguments
Claims 1-10 are pending and the examiner agrees with the applicant’s representative that the prior art of record nor the prior art teaches the limitations of claims 1 and 6. Therefore the examiner has removed the art rejection but has given a 101 rejection to claims 1-5.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
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.
Claims 1-5 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter.
The claim(s) does/do not fall within at least one of the four categories of patent eligible subject matter because claim 1 is directed to: A method for improving a pass-through view, executed by a host that provides a mixed reality service, the method comprising the steps of obtaining, determining, predicting, rendering and generating which are nothing more than software instructions. Software instructions are non-statutory under 35 U.S.C. 101.
Claims 2-5 depend from claim 1 and comprise additional steps, for example claim 2 comprises the step of determining, therefore claims 2-5 have the same problem as claim 1 and are rejected under the same rationale.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 6-10 are allowed.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
Regarding claim 6, the prior art doesn’t teach:
obtaining current per-frame information and historical per-frame information of the host;
determining historical tracking information and texture information of a target object based on the historical per-frame information of the host;
predicting current tracking information of the target object based on the historical tracking information of the target object and the current per-frame information of the host;
rendering an object image corresponding to the target object based on the current tracking information and the texture information of the target object; and
generating a pass-through view based on the rendered object image, the current per-frame information of the host, and the current tracking information of the target object, and displaying the pass-through view.
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Conclusion
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/MAURICE L. MCDOWELL, JR/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2612
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