DETAILED ACTION
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
1. 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
2. In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA ) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status.
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, 4, and 5 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Vosoughi et al. (U.S. patent pub. 2022/0070492 A1).
Regarding claim 1: Vosoughi et al. discloses a method comprising:
determining, based on a motion compensated point cloud (paragraphs 034, 0038, and 0060), one or more symbols of a neighborhood configuration of a current edge associated with a video frame (abstract and paragraphs 0008, 0009, 0032-0036, 0038, 0048-0055, 0059-0060, and 0071);
selecting, based on the neighborhood configuration, a context for coding vertex information of the current edge (paragraphs 0009 and 0080-0093. Especially paragraph 0084, the flag(s) is/are encoded for the vertices. The flag(s) is/are read as context.); and
based on the context, decoding the vertex information of the current edge (paragraphs 0031, 0033, 0042, and 0048-0052).
Regarding claim 4: The method of claim 1, wherein the determining further comprises:
determining compensated vertex information of the current edge (paragraphs 0008, 0016, 0032-0033, 0042, 0047, 0052, and 0084).
Regarding claim 5: The method of claim 4, wherein the vertex information comprises at least one of:
a vertex presence flag (paragraph 0084); or
a vertex position (paragraph 0084).
Allowable Subject Matter
3. Claims 2, 3, and 6-8 are 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.
4. Claims 9-20 are allowed.
5. The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: The closest prior art of Vosoughi et al. (U.S. patent pub. 2022/0070492 A1) discloses a trisoup geometry encoding for a motion compensated point cloud using symbols. Vosoughi et al. nor any other prior art of record, regarding claim 9, teaches the features of “based on occupancies of point locations in a motion compensated point cloud, determining one or more symbols of a neighborhood configuration of a current edge associated with a video frame,” these, in combination with the other claim limitations. Regarding claim 16, none of the prior art of record teaches the features of " determining, based on a reduction of occupancies of point locations in a motion compensated point cloud, one or more symbols of a neighborhood configuration of a current edge associated with a video frame," these, in combination with the other claim limitations. Regarding claims 10-15 and 17-20, these claims are directly or indirectly dependent from allowable independent claim 9 or 16, respectively, therefore, these claims are allowed.
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/ANAND P BHATNAGAR/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2668
January 5, 2026