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 .
Summary
2. This office action for US Patent application 18/477,368 is responsive to communications filed on 04/20/2026, in response to the Non-Final Rejection of 12/23/2025. Claims 1-8, 16-20 have been amended. Claims 9-15 have been withdrawn. Currently, claims 1-20 are pending and are presented for examination.
Response to Arguments
3. In response to communication filed on 04/20/2026, the claim objections with respect to claim 4 have been withdrawn in view of the amendment and remarks.
4. Applicant's Remarks see pages 10-12, with respect to the amendment and argument have been fully considered and are persuasive. Therefore, 35 U.S.C 102/103 rejections have been withdrawn.
5. Applicant's amendment has introduced claim language that has resulted in additional rejections. Please see the new grounds of rejection presented below.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
6. The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
7. Claims 1 and 16 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claims contain subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor, at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention.
Claims 1 and 16 recite the limitations “a first reconstructed video data”, “a second reconstructed data”, and “determining a first quality metric based on the video data and the first reconstructed video data” in the claims. These limitations are not disclosed in the specification and/or in the figures and therefore, this claim is likewise rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, first paragraph for failing to comply with the written description requirement.
Claims 2-8, 17-20 are rejected to as being depended on a rejected base claims 1 and 16 respectively.
Allowable Subject Matter
8. Claims 1-8, 16-20 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112 (a).
Conclusion
9. Applicant’s amendment necessitated the new ground (s) of rejection presented in this office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
A shortened statutory period for reply to this final action is set to expire THREE MONTHS from the mailing date of this final action and the advisory action is not mailed until after the end of the THREE-MONTH shortened statutory period, then the shortened statutory period will expire on the date the advisory action is mailed, and any extension fee pursuant to 37 CFR 1.136(a) will be calculated from the mailing date of the advisory action. In no event, however, will the statutory period for reply expire later than SIX MONTHS from the mailing date of this final action.
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/ON S MUNG/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2486
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