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 .
DETAILED ACTION
1. The following Office action is in response to communications filed on 1/9/2025. Claims 1-20 are currently pending within this application.
Information Disclosure Statement
2. The information disclosure statement(s) filed on 1/9/2025 is/are in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97, and has/have been considered and a copy/copies is/are enclosed with this Office action.
Double Patenting
The nonstatutory double patenting rejection is based on a judicially created doctrine grounded in public policy (a policy reflected in the statute) so as to prevent the unjustified or improper timewise extension of the “right to exclude” granted by a patent and to prevent possible harassment by multiple assignees. A nonstatutory obviousness-type double patenting rejection is appropriate where the conflicting claims are not identical, but at least one examined application claim is not patentably distinct from the reference claim(s) because the examined application claim is either anticipated by, or would have been obvious over, the reference claim(s). See, e.g., In re Berg, 140 F.3d 1428, 46 USPQ2d 1226 (Fed. Cir. 1998); In re Goodman, 11 F.3d 1046, 29 USPQ2d 2010 (Fed. Cir. 1993); In re Longi, 759 F.2d 887, 225 USPQ 645 (Fed. Cir. 1985); In re Van Ornum, 686 F.2d 937, 214 USPQ 761 (CCPA 1982); In re Vogel, 422 F.2d 438, 164 USPQ 619 (CCPA 1970); and In re Thorington, 418 F.2d 528, 163 USPQ 644 (CCPA 1969).
A timely filed terminal disclaimer in compliance with 37 CFR 1.321(c) or 1.321(d) may be used to overcome an actual or provisional rejection based on a nonstatutory double patenting ground provided the conflicting application or patent either is shown to be commonly owned with this application, or claims an invention made as a result of activities undertaken within the scope of a joint research agreement.
Effective January 1, 1994, a registered attorney or agent of record may sign a terminal disclaimer. A terminal disclaimer signed by the assignee must fully comply with 37 CFR 3.73(b).
3. Claims 1-20 of the instant application are rejected on the grounds of non-statutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-20 of US Patent 11586840 (hereafter ‘840).
4. Although the conflicting claims are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because the subject matter claimed in the instant application is broader and fully incorporated within the claims of the patented application. Claims 1-20 of the instant application are anticipated in the limitations of claims 1-20 of cited patent ‘840. The claims of the instant application are broader than those of cited patent ‘840 and merely omit certain limitations in the claims of the cited patent ‘840.
Instant Application
Claim 1
US Patent 11586840
Claim 1
A method comprising: retrieving, by a computing system, a broadcast video feed for a sporting event, the broadcast video feed comprising a plurality of video frames; generating, by the computing system, a plurality of tracks based on the plurality of video frames, wherein each track comprises a plurality of image patches associated with at least one player, each image patch of the plurality of image patches being a subset of a corresponding frame of the plurality of video frames; connecting, by the computing system, the plurality of tracks by generating a motion field that estimates player motion across a set of video frames of the plurality of video frames; constructing, by the computing system, a predicted motion for each player in the broadcast video feed based on the motion field for a respective player; and generating, by the computing system, a graphical representation of the predicted motion for each player across a respective set of video frames.
A method, comprising: retrieving, by a computing system, a broadcast video feed for a sporting event, the broadcast video feed comprising a plurality of video frames; generating, by the computing system, a plurality of tracks based on the plurality of video frames, wherein each track comprises a plurality of image patches associated with at least one player, each image patch of the plurality of image patches being a subset of a corresponding frame of the plurality of video frames; connecting, by the computing system, gaps between sets of tracks of the plurality of tracks, the connecting comprising generating a motion field that estimates player motion across a set of video frames of the plurality of video frames; constructing, by the computing system, a predicted motion for each player in the broadcast video feed based on the motion field for a respective player; and generating, by the computing system, a graphical representation of the predicted motion for each player across a respective set of video frames.
Table 1
Instant Application
Claim 8
US Patent 11586840
Claim 8
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising one or more sequences of instructions, which, when executed by one or more processors, causes a computing system to perform operations, comprising: retrieving, by the computing system, a broadcast video feed for a sporting event, the broadcast video feed comprising a plurality of video frames; generating, by the computing system, a plurality of tracks based on the plurality of video frames, wherein each track comprises a plurality of image patches associated with at least one player, each image patch of the plurality of image patches being a subset of a corresponding frame of the plurality of video frames; connecting, by the computing system, the plurality of tracks by generating a motion field that estimates player motion across a set of video frames of the plurality of video frames; constructing, by the computing system, a predicted motion for each player in the broadcast video feed based on the motion field for a respective player; and generating, by the computing system, a graphical representation of the predicted motion for each player across a respective set of video frames.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising one or more sequences of instructions, which, when executed by one or more processors, causes a computing system to perform operations, comprising: retrieving, by the computing system, a broadcast video feed for a sporting event, the broadcast video feed comprising a plurality of video frames; generating, by the computing system, a plurality of tracks based on the plurality of video frames, wherein each track comprises a plurality of image patches associated with at least one player, each image patch of the plurality of image patches being a subset of a corresponding frame of the plurality of video frames; connecting, by the computing system, gaps between sets of tracks of the plurality of tracks, the connecting comprising generating a motion field that estimates player motion across a set of video frames of the plurality of video frames; constructing, by the computing system, a predicted motion for each player in the broadcast video feed based on the motion field for a respective player; and generating, by the computing system, a graphical representation of the predicted motion for each player across a respective set of video frames.
Table 2
Instant Application
Claim 15
US Patent 11586840
Claim 15
A system comprising: a processor; and a memory having programming instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the processor, causes the system to perform operations comprising: retrieving a broadcast video feed for a sporting event, the broadcast video feed comprising a plurality of video frames; generating a plurality of tracks based on the plurality of video frames, wherein each track comprises a plurality of image patches associated with at least one player, each image patch of the plurality of image patches being a subset of a corresponding frame of the plurality of video frames; connecting the plurality of tracks by generating a motion field that estimates player motion across a set of video frames of the plurality of video frames; constructing a predicted motion for each player in the broadcast video feed based on the motion field for a respective player; and generating a graphical representation of the predicted motion for each player across a respective set of video frames.
A system comprising: a processor; and a memory having programming instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the processor, causes the system to perform operations comprising: retrieving a broadcast video feed for a sporting event, the broadcast video feed comprising a plurality of video frames; generating a plurality of tracks based on the plurality of video frames, wherein each track comprises a plurality of image patches associated with at least one player, each image patch of the plurality of image patches being a subset of a corresponding frame of the plurality of video frames; connecting gaps between sets of tracks of the plurality of tracks, the connecting comprising generating a motion field that estimates player motion across a set of video frames of the plurality of video frames; constructing a predicted motion for each player in the broadcast video feed based on the motion field for a respective player; and generating a graphical representation of the predicted motion for each player across a respective set of video frames.
Table 3
5. As can be seen in Tables 1-3, each of the claimed limitations of independent claims 1, 8, and 15 of the instant application are included within the claimed limitations of claims 1, 8, and 15 of cited patent '840. Additionally, claims 2-7, 9-14, and 16-20 of the instant application are anticipated by claims 1-20 of cited patent ‘840.
Conclusion
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/MICHAEL S OSINSKI/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2674
8/4/2026
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