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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 § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(2) the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 1, 15 and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Carroll et al. US 2025/0292442.
In regarding to claim 1 Carroll teaches:
1. A video generating method, comprising: determining a reference video identifier specified by a current video editing task;
Carroll, 0045-0050
determining reference video editing template information corresponding to the current video editing task based on the reference video identifier, wherein the reference video editing template information is generated through a video editing template generation model based on reference video element information,
Carroll, 0035-0036, 0039
the reference video editing template information allows a multimedia material to exhibit a video editing effect required for the current video editing task, the video editing template generation model is constructed based on a natural language processing model,
Carroll, 0070-0072, 0089-0090
and the reference video element information comprises a plurality of video element features generated by conducting video element decomposition on a reference video corresponding to the reference video identifier;
Carroll, 0045-0050
and conducting video editing on a target multimedia material specified by the current video editing task based on the reference video editing template information, to obtain a target video.
Carroll, 0045-0050, 0089-0090
Claims 15 and 20 list all similar elements of claim 1, but in device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium form rather than method form. Therefore, the supporting rationale of the rejection to claim 1 applies equally as well to claims 15 and 20.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-14 and 16-19 objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
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/DANIEL T TEKLE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2481
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