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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
2. 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.
Claims 1 - 10, and 12-17, are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Kenoyer (Pub. No.: US 2007/0188596 A1; hereinafter Kenoyer) in view of CHIKYU (Pub. No.: US 2022/0256117 A1; hereinafter CHIKYU)
Consider claims 1, 12, and 17, Kenoyer clearly shows a camera driver program, adapted to an electronic device, a video processing device for a video conference, and a video processing method for a video conference, adapted to an electronic device (fig. 1, label 101), wherein the electronic device has a camera (fig. 2, label: 130), a camera driver program and a conference program are installed on the electronic device, the camera has a hardware shutter, and the video processing method comprises: obtaining a business card image by using the camera driver program (The identity information for the participant may be received in various ways. For example, where the identity information includes biometric information, the biometric information may be received from a biometric device, such as a fingerprint scanner, camera, voice recorder, retinal scanner, etc.; identity information for the participants may include facial information and each participant may stand near the camera and look directly into the camera to enable the camera to obtain an accurate and detailed facial image of the participant that can be used to look up his participant information) (paragraphs: 0080, 0091, 0093, 0103, and 0105); driving the camera by using the camera driver program, to obtain a streaming video (The videoconferencing device may also include network ports for receiving the remote audio/video streams from and sending the local audio/video stream to the remote endpoints, the videoconferencing device may also include an interface to allow users to interact with the videoconferencing equipment, e.g., to pan, tilt, and zoom cameras) (paragraphs: 0038); adding the business card image to the streaming video by using the camera driver program, to generate a processed streaming video (the remote videoconferencing device may create a composite image in which the video information includes the participant information, e.g., as text overlaid over the camera image) (paragraphs: 0066, 0109, 0131); and presenting the processed streaming video by using the conference program (the display screen on which the participant information is displayed may be the same display screen as the display screen on which the video information is displayed) (paragraphs: 0007, 0069 and fig. 4); however, Kenoyer does not teach another example for presenting the processed streaming video by using the conference program.
In the same field of endeavor, CHIKYU clearly teaches another example for presenting the processed streaming video by using the conference program (the business card image 1215 and the business card image 1220 are displayed on the online business card exchange screen 1205. That is, the online conference participant 320 operates the terminal 210 to match the business card image on the online business card exchange screen 1205 to the display of the video conference screen 1305) (paragraphs: 0180-0191 and fig. 13).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the invention to incorporate the teaching of CHIKYU into teaching of Kenoyer for the purpose of exchanging the online business card and displaying simultaneously with the video conference screen.
Consider claim 2, Kenoyer and CHIKYU clearly show the video processing method, wherein the step of adding the business card image to the streaming video by using the camera driver program, to generate the processed streaming video comprises: controlling, in response to the electronic device receiving a display control instruction, the camera driver program to add the business card image to the streaming video, to generate the processed streaming video (Kenoyer: paragraphs: 0066, 0109, 0131).
Consider claim 3, Kenoyer and CHIKYU clearly show the video processing method, wherein the step of adding the business card image to the streaming video by using the camera driver program, to generate the processed streaming video comprises: controlling, in response to a shutter state of the hardware shutter, the camera driver program to add the business card image to the streaming video (Kenoyer: paragraphs: 0066, 0109, 0131; and fig. 4; CHIKYU: paragraphs: 0180-0191 and fig. 13 ).
Consider claim 4, Kenoyer and CHIKYU clearly show the video processing method, before the step of adding the business card image to the streaming video by using the camera driver program, to generate a processed streaming video, further comprising: changing a size of the business card image in response to a shutter state of the hardware shutter (CHIKYU: paragraphs: 0186 and fig. 12).
Consider claim 5, Kenoyer and CHIKYU clearly show the video processing method, wherein the step of changing a size of the business card image in response to the shutter state of the hardware shutter comprises: controlling, in response to the shutter state of the hardware shutter, the camera driver program to add the business card image to the streaming video in an original size or a full screen size (CHIKYU: paragraphs: 0186, 0196 and fig. 15).
Consider claim 6, Kenoyer and CHIKYU clearly show the video processing method, wherein the electronic device comprises a storage element, and the video processing method further comprises: obtaining a piece of user information to generate the business card image stored in the storage element (Kenoyer: paragraphs: 0080, 0091, 0093, 0103, and 0105; and fig. 4; CHIKYU: paragraphs: 0137).
Consider claim 7, Kenoyer and CHIKYU clearly show the video processing method, wherein the step of adding the business card image to the streaming video by using the camera driver program, to generate a processed streaming video comprises: obtaining a display control instruction corresponding to the business card image; and adding the business card image to the streaming video based on the display control instruction by using the camera driver program (Kenoyer: paragraphs: 0080, 0091, 0093, 0103, and 0105; CHIKYU: paragraphs: 0058, 0070, and 0116 and fig. 12-fig. 13).
Consider claim 8, Kenoyer and CHIKYU clearly show the video processing method, further comprising: obtaining a detection signal corresponding to a shutter state of the hardware shutter (Kenoyer: paragraphs: 0124; and CHIKYU: paragraphs: 0109 and 0312).
Consider claim 9, Kenoyer and CHIKYU clearly show the video processing method, wherein the step of adding the business card image to the streaming video by using the camera driver program, to generate a processed streaming video comprises: adding the business card image to the streaming video based on the detection signal by using the camera driver program. (Kenoyer: paragraphs: 0066, 0109, 0131; and CHIKYU: paragraphs: 0186, 0196 and fig. 15).
Consider claim 10, Kenoyer and CHIKYU clearly show the video processing method, wherein the step of adding the business card image to the streaming video by using the camera driver program, to generate a processed streaming video comprises: adding the business card image to the streaming video in an original size or a full screen size based on the detection signal by using the camera driver program (Kenoyer: paragraphs: 0066, 0109, 0131, fig. 4; and CHIKYU: paragraphs: 0186, 0196; fig. 13 and fig. 15).
Consider claim 13, Kenoyer and CHIKYU clearly show the video processing device, further comprising a control interface, suitable for obtaining a display control instruction, wherein the video processing unit adds the business card image to the streaming video based on the display control instruction (Kenoyer: paragraphs: 0080, 0091, 0093, 0103, and 0105; CHIKYU: paragraphs: 0058, 0070, and 0116 and fig. 12-fig. 13).
Consider claim 14, Kenoyer and CHIKYU clearly show the video processing device, further comprising a hardware shutter detection unit, suitable for detecting a shutter state of the hardware shutter, to generate a detection signal, wherein the video processing unit adds the business card image to the streaming video based on the detection signal (Kenoyer: paragraphs: 0066, 0109, 0131, fig. 4; and CHIKYU: paragraphs: 0186, 0196; fig. 13 and fig. 15).
Consider claim 15, Kenoyer and CHIKYU clearly show the video processing device, further comprising a hardware shutter detection unit, suitable for detecting a shutter state of the hardware shutter to generate a detection signal, wherein the video processing unit is suitable for changing, based on the detection signal, a size of the business card image added to the streaming video (CHIKYU: paragraphs: 0186 and fig. 12).
Consider claim 16, Kenoyer and CHIKYU clearly show the video processing device, wherein the video processing unit adds the business card image to the streaming video in an original size or a full screen size based on the detection signal (Kenoyer: paragraphs: 0066, 0109, 0131, fig. 4; and CHIKYU: paragraphs: 0186, 0196; fig. 13 and fig. 15).
3. Consider claim 11, are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103(a) as being unpatentable over Kenoyer (Pub. No.: US 2007/0188596 A1; hereinafter Kenoyer) in view of CHIKYU (Pub. No.: US 2022/0256117 A1; hereinafter CHIKYU)
and further in view of Rhoads et al (Pub. No.: US 2010/0293106 A1; hereinafter Rhoads)
Consider claim 11, Kenoyer and CHIKYU disclose the claimed invention above but lack teaching wherein the business card image is a watermark image.
In the same field of endeavor, Rhoads clearly discloses wherein the business card image is a watermark image (paragraphs: 0516).
Therefore, it would have been obvious to a person of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made to incorporate the teaching of Rhoads e into teaching of Kenoyer and CHIKYU for the purpose of using watermark image for business card.
Conclusion
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/AMAL S ZENATI/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2693
