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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 .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claim 10 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Claim 10 recites the limitation "the plurality of audio clips" in line 4. There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-9 and 11-20 are allowed.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
Regarding independent claims 1, 13, and 18, the prior art lacks disclosing, teaching, or fairly suggesting in combination with other claim limitations,
executing an artificial intelligence (AI) model using the information to determine a game play tempo of in-game related actions for the game play of the video game;
executing the AI model to synchronize an audio track to the game play tempo.
Eklipse discloses an AI-powered video editing assistant to automate the content creation process, however, Eklipse fails to explicitly disclose synchronize an audio track to the game play tempo.
US Pat. 8591332 to Bright et al (Bright) discloses creation of audiovisual presentation with varying background music, music files are beatmapped, synchronize video clips or application of effects with the beats of the selected background music, however, Bright fails to explicitly disclose synchronize an audio track to the game play tempo.
US Pub. 20200251146 to St. Joh Brislin (herein referred to Brislin) discloses automatically generating audio-visual content from video game footage and sync imported audio with key moments of the video game footage, however, Brislin fails to explicitly disclose synchronize an audio track to the game play tempo.
US Pub. 20250177863 to Yip et al (Yip) discloses temporal characteristic is used to identify game context of current game state that corresponds to the temporal characteristic, adjust the tempo of the audio signal, and temporal data that can be used to match the audio data to corresponding game scene, however, Yip belongs to the same assignee as the instant application and does not qualify as proper prior art.
US Pub. 20260145075 to Dorn discloses pace of the actions and the attributes of the activity sets the pace of the original game music rendered for the activity; as the pace of the gameplay varies either based on user-based and/or game character/game objects-based actions (i.e., game inputs), the intensity of the gameplay and, as a result, the pace of the original game music also varies accordingly, however, Dorn belongs to the same assignee as the instant application and does not qualify as proper prior art.
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Conclusion
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/DAMON J PIERCE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 3715
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