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The document summarizes a patent relating to synchronizing and displaying recorded gestures and comments over video frames during playback. It finds that the patent is not novel as it is anticipated by an earlier patent from 1994 that discloses a system for annotating and displaying annotations such as text, graphics, and audio over synchronized video frames using an annotation layer, and indexing and synchronizing the annotations to the video.

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US 6599130 Claim Chart (Public)

The document summarizes a patent relating to synchronizing and displaying recorded gestures and comments over video frames during playback. It finds that the patent is not novel as it is anticipated by an earlier patent from 1994 that discloses a system for annotating and displaying annotations such as text, graphics, and audio over synchronized video frames using an annotation layer, and indexing and synchronizing the annotations to the video.

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PATROLL Winning Submission

US 6,599,130

The ’130 patent (“Moehrle”) (filed on February 2, 2001 without a claim for an earlier
priority date), discloses a system whereby the gestures and comments occurring around an in-
motion event (e.g., a teaching presentation) may be recorded in a time-synchronized fashion to
capture the knowledge expressed during the session for later use. Claim 17 of the alleged
invention (treated as representative of the ’130 patent) recites the use of an “interpretation layer”
for recording gestures and associated comments that is synchronized to and displayed
concurrently with a “video layer” during playback. Claim 17 further recites an “index manager”
for storing comments in a database. However, there was nothing innovative about a system that
displays recorded comments or gestures over a video layer in 2001, as demonstrated by the ’775
patent addressed below.
The ’775 patent (“King”) (filed on August 26, 1994, without a claim for an earlier priority
date) relates to the display of annotations (such as text, graphics, and digital audio) over full-
motion video frames. The abstract explains that the annotation data structure includes a graphical
element for displaying the annotations over the video. King also discloses that the annotation
data is stored indexed in an annotation memory. A sample claim chart comparing the ’130 patent
to the King reference is provided below.

US 6,599,130 (“Moehrle”) US 5,600,775 (“King”) in view of US 6,342,906


(“Kumar”)
17.pre. A diagnostic aid or King discloses “[a]n apparatus for display and annotation
teaching system comprising a of a file of indexed data structures, data structures in the
computer having: file having an index value, comprising . . . ” See ’775
Patent, cl. 39.

King discloses that the system for implementing its


invention is a computer. Id. At 4:1-9.
17.a. a video layer for the display King discloses a “media manager” (corresponding to the
and quantization of a series of video layer) that displays the file of indexed data
images; structures. Id. at 3:2-8.

“Indexed data structures,” as King explains, includes video


files (i.e., a series of images quantized or indexed by frame
number). Id. at 1:28-30 (“Typically, such content is stored
in indexed data structures, such as video frames, which are
indexed by a frame number.”).
17.b. an interpretation layer, time Kumar recites “an annotation layer for handling the
synchronized to, and running discussion mode on top of any synchronized work space.
concurrently with, the video The annotation layer appears as a transparent graphical
layer, and having a gesture object that covers the shared window displaying the
recorder for identifying and synchronized application and the shared data.” ’906 patent

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recording selected portions of at 4:11-15 (further explaining that “[t]he annotation layer
images in the video layer; appears to handle each user input such as mouse and
keyboard events to generate appropriate action such as
moving a cursor, selecting a drawing tool and marking over
an area or placing annotation text” and that “[a]ll the
annotation effects appear on the annotation layer itself,
independent of the application underneath.”).

King additionally discloses an annotation manager that


“interfaces with the media manager, the input tools, and the
graphic user interface driver for the creation and playing
back of annotations.” King at 4:45-47.

The input tools for annotations “may include a drawing


tool, a text input tool, and an audio input tool. Also, a
pointer tool may be used for providing user input to
manipulate the graphical user interface.” Id. at 3:14-17.
King also discloses that the annotation manager records the
annotations made using the input tools. “[ ] manages
annotation data structures in the data memory 14 . . .” Id. at
4:48-49.

King discloses that the annotation data is synchronized to


and displayed concurrently with the video file. Id. at 6:51-
7:11 (“The first annotation data structure in the file of
annotation data structures, such as the file 200 above, will
have the index value k2:k1:k0. Thus, when the frame
number in register 217 equals k2:k1:k0, the combined
video buffer and annotation buffer output is selected
through the multiplexer 212 into the frame buffer, with the
annotation graphic overlaying the video data.”).
17.c. the interpretation layer See 17.b. supra.
further including a comment
recorder which records and
displays concurrent comments
and associates the concurrent
comments with the gestures;

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17.d. synchronization means for King discloses that the annotation data is synchronized to
synchronizing the video layer and and displayed concurrently with the video file. Id. at 6:51-
the interpretation layer;1 7:11 (“The first annotation data structure in the file of
annotation data structures, such as the file 200 above, will
have the index value k2:k1:k0. Thus, when the frame
number in register 217 equals k2:k1:k0, the combined
video buffer and annotation buffer output is selected
through the multiplexer 212 into the frame buffer, with the
annotation graphic overlaying the video data.”).

17.e. the interpretation layer See 17.d. supra.


overlaid on the video layer so as
to be displayed and run
concurrently and in
synchronization therewith; and

17.f. an index manager for King discloses an annotation data structure that
indexing of the comments or the corresponds to the “index manager” of the ’130 patent. Id.
select portions, or both, within a at 6:19-25 (“The annotation process involves creating an
database; and annotation data structure apart from the indexed data
structure of the video file. This annotation data structure
includes an indication of the index of the annotated frame,
a graphical element which is displayed overlying the
annotated frame when it is displayed, and a data field
storing the actual data of the annotation.”)

1
The term “synchronization means” referenced by claim element 17.d. is identified in the ’130 patent specification
as including a “time code, frame and line code, or other image identifier accompanying the video.” See ’130 Patent
at 2:43-47; see also, id. at 4:48-53 (“The video layer time code 59 is shared with the interpretation layer 47 to
synchronize the two.”). Thus, the term “synchronization means” is construed to include at least “a time code, frame
or line code, or other image identifier that may accompany a video.”

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17.g. whereby a diagnostic or King discloses monitoring "the annotation memory while
teaching session can be created the file of full motion video is displayed" and overlaying
comprising playback of the series "the frame on the display with the graphical element of the
of images concurrently with annotation data structure without modifying the frame" Id.
image portions selected by at cl. 39.
gestures and the comments
associated with the gestures. King further discloses navigating playback using
annotations by selecting from an index of annotation files
resulting in the play back of the video with the selected
overlaid annotations. Id., 5:53-56, 6:1-3.

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