Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.)

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board determined that challenged claims of GoPro Inc.'s patent directed to the stabilization of videos using smoothing techniques to ameliorate the motion of the camera during filming aren’t unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Arashi Vision (U.S.) LLC. The board said that the challenged claims aren’t obvious over various combinations of prior art, including prior art that discusses real-time video stabilization for mobile devices based on on-board motion sentencing, discusses a video stabilization scheme that uses look-ahead frames to compensate for motion, and titled “A Non-Linear Filter for Gyroscope-Based ...