enpan's Patent & Linux practice: USITC初步裁定: Insta360侵害Gopro設計專利

2025年7月27日星期日

USITC初步裁定: Insta360侵害Gopro設計專利 - GoPro v. Insta360 (ITC 2025)

ITC程序：

美國國際貿易委員會（ITC）程序（https://enpan.blogspot.com/2011/10/itc.html），這裡僅列出簡化的主要幾個步驟：

ITC接受訴訟請求後開始調查，ITC不會自動啟動337條款調查程序，簡化的調查程序（Investigation）如下：

ITC啟動調查程序後，將分派給行政法官（Administrative Law Judge，ALJ），安排基本規則和發現程序（Discovery），以及ALJ在啟動調查程序後45天內要確定調查完成的目標期限（target date for completion of the investigation），目標期限不能超過16個月
發現程序（Discovery），包括以下部份之一或多個：
對於口審或文字證言宣誓（Depositions）
文字審問（written Interrogations）
用於檢閱用的文件或事物製作（production of documents or things）
許可請求（Requests for admission）
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聽證會（Hearing）：
確認證據，判斷是否違反法規（337條款）
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初步裁定（Initial determination）：
ALJ應於90天內做出此初步裁定，並提交ITC
初步裁定將包括：
對所有的事實與理由做出意見
除非45天內被要求複審（petition for review），此初步裁定即為ITC的裁定（45天後）
ITC委員會可自行審視（review）此裁定，因此ITC可能確認、否決、修訂、保留、發回重審（remand）
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公告ITC決定
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任一方不服可提上訴（Appeal）聯邦巡迴法院、聯邦最高法院
後續救濟（Remedies）：
有限排除令（Limited exclusion orders）
臨時性有限排除令（Temporary limited exclusion orders）
一般性排除令（General exclusion orders）
停止進口令（Cease and desist orders）
臨時性停止進口令（Temporary cease and desist orders）

GoPro v. Insta360 (ITC 2025)

ITC受理訴訟（March 29, 2024）：（https://www.usitc.gov/news_releases）

July 11, 2025 ITC初步裁定（initial determination）：

設計專利：Design Patent USD789435

列舉發明專利的簡單描述：

US10,574,894：關於攝影機（GoPro Hero）執行的影片穩定方法，裝置元件包括光學元件、影像感測器與位置感測器，方法步驟包括：產生影像訊號、取得位置訊號、取得裝置的移動軌跡（包括拍攝期間每個時間點的位置）、根據軌跡判斷平順的拍攝軌跡，其中同時考量旋轉速度與加速度，校正視角後拍攝影像，再經裁切後得出穩定的影像內容。

US10,958,840：關於一種影像擷取系統執行的影像穩定方法，步驟包括：取得FOV內影像、取得裝置位置、產生旋轉位置變化的資訊、計算軌跡，得出軌跡上每個時間點的位置變化、演算出平滑軌跡後，決定後續穩定畫面，裁切出穩定影像。

US11,336,832的claim 1如下：(claims 4, 8為附屬請求項)

1. A system for horizon leveling videos, the system comprising:

one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to:

obtain video information defining a video, the video including video content captured by an image capture device during a capture duration, the video content having a progress length, the video content including visual content captured at different moments within the capture duration, the visual content viewable as a function of progress through the progress length, the visual content having a field of view;

obtain rotational position information for the video, the rotational position information characterizing rotational positions of the image capture device as a function of progress through the capture duration;

determine a viewing window for the visual content as a function of progress through the progress length based on the rotational positions of the image capture device as the function of progress through the capture duration, the viewing window defining extents of the visual content to be included within horizon-leveled visual content as the function of progress through the progress length, wherein determination of the viewing window includes determination of a placement of the viewing window within the field of view of the visual content as the function of progress through the progress length based on the rotational positions of the image capture device as the function of progress through the capture duration; and

generate the horizon-leveled visual content based on the viewing window, the horizon-leveled visual content including a punchout of the extents of the visual content defined by the viewing window, wherein inclusion of the extents of the visual content defined by the viewing window within the horizon-leveled visual content effectuates horizon leveling of the visual content.

'832的Claim 1關於水平平衡影片的系統，其中處理器執行的方法包括：取得影片，包括不同時間取得的影像內容；獲得影片的旋轉資訊；基於設備旋轉位置的函式確定水平視角的內容，以水平平衡影像內容。

US10,529,052的Claim 1：

1. A system that simulates image distortion of a virtual lens in a video, the system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed cause the one or more processors to perform steps including:

accessing input images, the input images including fields of view of a scene captured through a lens of a camera, the input images depicting the scene with an input lens distortion centered in the fields of view;

selecting sub-frames representing portions of the input images, the sub-frames including reduced fields of view of the scene smaller than the fields of view of the input images, the sub-frames including different lens distortion effects as a function of the input lens distortion present in the input images, different positions of areas of the input images included within the reduced fields of view, and a size of the areas of the input images included within the reduced fields of view; and

generating output images based on a desired lens distortion and the different lens distortion effects in the sub-frames, the desired lens distortion and the input lens distortion exhibiting consistent lens characteristics, wherein the output images include the sub-frames remapped from the input lens distortion centered in the fields of view of the input images to the desired lens distortion centered in the reduced fields of view to transform the different lens distortion effects present in the sub-frames to the desired lens distortion such that portions of the scene depicted in the sub-frames appear to have been captured using the reduced fields of view.

'052的Claim 1關於模擬影片中虛擬透鏡的影像失真的系統，包括處理器與非暫態電腦可讀取媒體，其中指令經處理器後，存取通過透鏡得到的輸入影像；選擇代表輸入影像部分的子幀；基於所需的鏡頭失真和子幀中的不同鏡頭失真效果生成輸出圖像，以輸入圖像的視角為中心的輸入鏡頭失真重新映射到以縮小的視角為中心的所需鏡頭失真的子幀，使得子幀視角影像像是使用縮小視角取得的。