DETAILED ACTION
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Claim Objections
Applicant is advised that should claim11 be found allowable, claim18 will be objected to under 37 CFR 1.75 as being a substantial duplicate thereof. When two claims in an application are duplicates or else are so close in content that they both cover the same thing, despite a slight difference in wording, it is proper after allowing one claim to object to the other as being a substantial duplicate of the allowed claim. See MPEP § 608.01(m).
Double Patenting
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Claims 1-18 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-19 of US12160622. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because the limitations of the instant claim are anticipated in every aspect by the patented claims.
The analysis is as follows:
Instant Application
18/965749
US Patent
12160577
1. A media content processing method, comprising:
displaying a capturing interface in response to a preset capturing operation on a first media content,
wherein the capturing interface is provided with an album entry;
displaying an album interface in response to a triggering on the album entry;
acquiring a media resource based on the album interface; and
generating a second media content based on the media resource and the first media content,
wherein the method further comprises:
determining a display layout mode on the capturing interface, and
generating the second media content based on the media resource and the first media content comprises:
displaying, according to the display layout mode, the media resource and the first media content on a media content editing interface; and
generating, based on the media content editing interface, the second media content.
Claims 2-18
1. A video processing method, comprising:
displaying a combined photographing page in response to a preset combined photographing operation on a target video,
wherein the combined photographing page is provided with an album entry;
displaying an album page in response to a trigger operation on the album entry;
acquiring a user material based on the album page; and
generating a combined photographing result video based on the user material and the target video,
wherein the combined photographing page is further provided with a layout control, and the method further comprises:
determining a display layout mode on the combined photographing page in response to a trigger operation on the layout control, and
generating the combined photographing result video based on the user material and the target video comprises:
displaying, according to the display layout mode, the user material and the target video on a video editing page; and
generating, based on the video editing page, the combined photographing result video for the user material and the target video.
Claims 2-19
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure: US20160225410 to Lee et al. and US20210407547 to Kelly et al.
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