DETAILED ACTION
Claims 1-15 are pending.
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 § 103
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.
Claim(s) 1-4, 9-11, 15 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Racicot (US 2009/0161750) in view of Harwell et al. (US 2013/0302005), and further in view of Huang et al. (US 2014/0192040).
Claim 1, Racicot teaches An apparatus for processing a serialised stream of video data for onwards transmission, the serialised stream of video data comprising a plurality of serially transmitted video frames from a video source, each video frame comprising a plurality of frame lines at least one frame line comprising a group of active pixels and one or more blanking pixels (fig. 1; p. 0010), the apparatus comprising:
a receiver (140) configured to receive the serialised stream of video data (p. 0019-0020);
a memory (i.e. RAM) configured to buffer (i.e. store video streams) the received serialised stream of video data until at least all of the active pixels of a respective frame line of pixels of a received respective video frame have been buffered (p. 0021-0028);
one or more processors configured, to, for each respective group of active pixels of a respective frame line (i.e. unencoded/encoded frames), generate a respective data structure comprising at least the respective group of active of the frame line pixels and a frame line position indicator (i.e. utilized in alternating sequence of lines) assigned to that the respective group of active pixels (i.e. lines of video data streams), each respective data structure omitting at least one blanking pixel (i.e. removing blanking data) of the respective frame line (p. 0017, 0019, 0026); and
“a transmitter configured to intermittently onwardly transmit the generated data structures by pausing transmission after each data structure has been transmitted until a next data structure is ready for transmission”.
Racicot is silent regarding the specific feature of:
a transmitter configured to intermittently onwardly transmit the generated data structures by pausing transmission after each data structure has been transmitted until a next data structure is ready for transmission;
“the next data structure comprising a different group of active pixels with a different frame line position indicator.”
Harwell teaches the specific feature of:
a transmitter configured to intermittently onwardly transmit the generated data structures by pausing transmission after each data structure has been transmitted until a next data structure is ready for transmission (i.e. intermittently transmitting cached content) (p. 0034).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the present invention to have provided intermittent transmission as taught by Harwell to the system of Racicot to optimize video transfers (p. 0034).
Huang teaches the specific feature of:
“the next data structure comprising a different group of active pixels (i.e. next image frame) with a different frame line position indicator” (i.e. Asub1, Asub11) (fig. 2; p. 0006-0008).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the present invention to have provided intermittent transmission of pixels as taught by Huang to the system of Racicot to transmit active pixels during blanking periods (p. 0007).
Claim 2, Racicot teaches the apparatus of claim 1, wherein more than one blanking pixel is discarded two or more blanking pixels are omitted from each received video frame line (i.e. removing blank data implies more than 1) (p. 0017).
Claim 3, Racicot teaches the apparatus of claim 1, wherein no blanking pixel of the received video frame lines is included in the onwardly transmitted data structures (i.e. blanking data is removed) (p. 0017).
Claim 4, Racicot is silent regarding the apparatus of claim 1, wherein the intermittently transmitted data structures have a fixed frame line length with variable durations of transmission pauses.
Harwell teaches the apparatus of claim 1, wherein the intermittently transmitted data structures have a fixed frame line length (i.e. predetermined amount of video) with variable durations of transmission pauses (i.e. based on network bandwidth) (p. 0034).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the present invention to have provided intermittent transmission as taught by Harwell to the system of Racicot to optimize video transfers (p. 0034).
Claim 9 is analyzed and interpreted as a method of claim 1.
Claim 10 is analyzed and interpreted as a method of claim 2.
Claim 11 is analyzed and interpreted as a method of claim 4.
Claim 15 recites “A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer program code stored thereon, the computer program code, when executed by one or more processors” to perform the steps of claim 9. Racicot inherently teaches “A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer program code stored thereon, the computer program code, when executed by one or more processors” to perform the steps of claim 9.
Claim(s) 5 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Racicot (US 2009/0161750) in view of Harwell et al. (US 2013/0302005), and further in view of Huang et al. (US 2014/0192040), and further in view of Hundemer (US 9264760).
Claim 5, Racicot is silent regarding the apparatus of claim 1, wherein the assigned frame line position indicator for each respective group of active pixels is included in the respective data structure including the respective group of active pixels.
Hundemer teaches the apparatus of claim 1, wherein the assigned frame line position indicator (i.e. frame indicators) for each respective group of active pixels (i.e. VS) is included in the respective data structure (i.e. VS table) including the respective group of active pixels (col. 11-12, lines 61-7).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the present invention to have provided frame line indicators as taught by Hundemer to the system of Racicot to provide traverse video packages (col. 11-12, lines 61-7).
Claim(s) 6-8, 12-13 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Racicot (US 2009/0161750) in view of Harwell et al. (US 2013/0302005), and further in view of Huang et al. (US 2014/0192040), and further in view of Fudge et al. (US 2003/0016302).
Claim 6, Racicot teaches A viewing apparatus comprising:
a receiver (140) configured to receive a transmitted stream of serialised video data comprising a plurality of data structures, each data structure comprising a group of active pixels from a video frame line (i.e. frame lines) and a frame line position indicator (i.e. utilized in alternating sequence of lines) for the group of active pixels line (p. 0017, 0019-0020, 0026); and
Racicot is silent regarding the specific features of:
“receive an intermittently transmitted stream”;
“wherein the intermittent transmission corresponds to pausing transmission after each data structure has been transmitted until a next data structure is ready for transmission, the next data structure comprising a different group of active pixels with a different frame line position indicator”;
one or more processors configured to:
for each respective data structure, generate a complete line of video data by adding one or more blanking pixels to the group of active pixels of the respective data structure until a next data structure in the serialised video data is received; and
cause each complete line of video data to be output for presentation on a display at a position in a video frame indicated by the frame line position indicator for the group of active pixels of the complete line of video data.
Harwell teaches the specific features of:
“receive an intermittently transmitted stream” (p. 0034).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the present invention to have provided intermittent transmission as taught by Harwell to the system of Racicot to optimize video transfers (p. 0034).
Huang teaches the specific feature of:
“wherein the intermittent transmission corresponds to pausing transmission after each data structure has been transmitted until a next data structure (i.e. next image frame) is ready for transmission, the next data structure comprising a different group of active pixels with a different frame line position indicator” (i.e. Asub1, Asub11) (fig. 2; p. 0006-0008).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the present invention to have provided intermittent transmission of pixels as taught by Huang to the system of Racicot to transmit active pixels during blanking periods (p. 0007).
Fudge teaches the specific feature of:
one or more processors configured to:
for each respective data structure (i.e. image data), generate a complete line of video data by adding one or more blanking pixels (i.e. adding black value) to the group of active pixels of the respective data structure until a next data structure in the serialised video data is received (i.e. held in frame buffer) (p. 0088-0089); and
cause each complete line of video data to be output for presentation on a display at a position in a video frame indicated by the frame line position indicator (i.e. pixel displayed in correct order) for the group of active pixels of the complete line of video data (i.e. image data displayed for each pixel in the correct order from a frame buffer) (p. 0088-0094).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the present invention to have provided adding blanking data as taught by Fudge to the system of Racicot to provide flexibility of formats (p. 0093).
Claim 7, Racicot is silent regarding the viewing apparatus of claim 6, wherein the received intermittently transmitted stream of serialised video data is processed by the one or more processors or processing circuitry to add a variable number of blanking pixels for output as a continuous serialised variable line length video stream to the display.
Harwell teaches the specific feature of:
“received intermittently transmitted stream of serialised video data” (p. 0034);
“a continuous serialised variable line length video stream to the display” (i.e. based on network bandwidth) (p. 0034).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the present invention to have provided intermittent transmission as taught by Harwell to the system of Racicot to optimize video transfers (p. 0034).
Fudge teaches the specific feature of:
“one or more processors or processing circuitry to add a variable number of blanking pixels for output” (p. 0088-0094) .
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the present invention to have provided adding blanking data as taught by Fudge to the system of Racicot to provide flexibility of formats (p. 0093).
Claim 8, Racicot teaches the viewing apparatus of claim 6 further comprising the display (p. 0035).
Claim 12 is analyzed and interpreted as a method of claim 6.
Claim 13 is analyzed and interpreted as a method of claim 7.
Claim(s) 14 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Racicot (US 2009/0161750) in view of Harwell et al. (US 2013/0302005), and further in view of Huang et al. (US 2014/0192040), and further in view of Fudge et al. (US 2003/0016302), and further in view of Colenbrander (US 2015/0181084).
Claim 14, Racicot is silent regarding the method of claim 12, further comprising:
determining a last frame line of a frame that has been received;
generating an end of frame line comprising blanking pixels as the last frame line of the frame; and
outputting the received frame lines including the end of frame line of the frame as a serial data stream of pixels to the display.
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the present invention to have provided last frame blanking region as taught by Colenbrander to the system of Racicot to provide extended end frames (p. 0102).
Colenbrander teaches The method of claim 12, further comprising:
determining a last frame line of a frame that has been received (i.e. end of each line of the frame) (p. 0077, 0102);
generating an end of frame line comprising blanking pixels as the last frame line of the frame (i.e. adding blanking region at the end of frames) (p. 0077, 0102); and
outputting the received frame lines including the end of frame line of the frame as a serial data stream of pixels to the display (i.e. output video signal) (p. 0077-0079).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the present invention to have provided last frame blanking region as taught by Colenbrander to the system of Racicot to provide extended end frames (p. 0102).
Response to Arguments
Applicant’s arguments with respect to claim(s) 1-15 have been considered but are moot because the new ground of rejection does not rely on any reference applied in the prior rejection of record for any teaching or matter specifically challenged in the argument.
Conclusion
Claims 1-15 are rejected.
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MUSHFIKH I. ALAM
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2426
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