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 .
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claims 17-30 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Carriage of Geometry-based Point Cloud Compression Data (hereinafter referred to as “Carriage”).
Regarding claim 17, a video device comprising: a processor configured to: obtain a media presentation description (MPD) file (met by XML elements and attributes are defined in a separate namespace). This is read in (10.2.2).
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Carriage further teaches wherein the MPD file indicates one or more adaptation sets associated with geometry-based point cloud compression (G-PCC) media content (met by identifying the type of the G-PCC component in a Component Adaptation Set using a descriptor attribute). This is read in (10.2.2.1).
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Carriage further teaches to select an adaptation set from the one or more adaptation sets (met by sample in the G-PCC tile track); determine one or more representations associated with the selected adaptation set (met by the presentation time of samples present in different temporal level tracks belonging to the same point cloud component shall be different). This is read in (7.5.3.2).
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Carriage further teaches to obtain, from the MPD file, an indication of a G-PCC descriptor associated with one representation of the one or more representations, wherein the G-PCC descriptor is used to identify one or more temporal levels present in the representation (met by the temporal level sample grouping (‘tele’) provides a codec-independent sample grouping that can be used to group G-PCC samples in a track according to temporal level; further met by ‘tele’ shall be used to indicate the temporal level identifier-value). This is read in (7.5.4).
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Carriage meets scheduling a download of the representation based on the G-PCC descriptor (this is implied by the prior art’s ability to retrieve the MPD as previously taught).
Regarding claim 18, Carriage meets wherein the G-PCC descriptor is associated with a set of temporal level identifiers, wherein each temporal level identifier of the set of temporal level identifiers is associated with a G-PCC component (met by temporal level sample grouping provides a code-independent sample grouping that can be used to group G-PCC samples in a track). This is read in (7.5.4) as read in the analysis of claim 1, incorporated herein.
Regarding claim 19, Carriage meets wherein the G-PCC component is divided into a plurality of temporal levels (met by G-PCC data is carried using multiple temporal level tracks). This is read in (7.5.4) as read in the analysis of claim 1, incorporated herein.
Regarding claim 20, Carriage meets wherein each temporal level identifier of the set of temporal level identifiers indicates a temporal level associated with the G-PCC component (met by samples belonging to a temporal level identifier shall be mapped to the sample group description index equal to temporal level identifier plus 1). This is read in (7.5.4) as read in the analysis of claim 1, incorporated herein.
Regarding claim 21, Carriage meets wherein the temporal level is associated with a track (met by group G-PCC samples in a track). This is read in (7.5.4) as read in the analysis of claim 1, incorporated herein.
Regarding claim 22, Carriage meets wherein the G-PCC descriptor is present at representation level (met by the temporal level sample grouping (‘tele’) provides a codec-independent sample grouping that can be used to group G-PCC samples in a track according to temporal level; further met by ‘tele’ shall be used to indicate the temporal level identifier-value). This is read in (7.5.4) as read in the analysis of claim 1, incorporated herein.
Regarding claim 23, Carriage meets wherein the G-PCC descriptor is a GPCCTemporalLevelld descriptor (met by the temporal level sample group ‘tele’ shall be used to indicate the temporal level identifier value). This is read in (7.5.4) as read in the analysis of claim 1, incorporated herein.
Regarding claim 24, the claim is substantially identical to claim 17, the analysis of which is incorporated herein.
Regarding claim 25, the claim is substantially identical to claim 18, the analysis of which is incorporated herein.
Regarding claim 26, the claim is substantially identical to claim 19, the analysis of which is incorporated herein.
Regarding claim 27, the claim is substantially identical to claim 20, the analysis of which is incorporated herein.
Regarding claim 28, the claim is substantially identical to claim 21, the analysis of which is incorporated herein.
Regarding claim 29, the claim is substantially identical to claim 22, the analysis of which is incorporated herein.
Regarding claim 30, the claim is substantially identical to claim 23, the analysis of which is incorporated herein.
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/MATTHEW JAMES BODNARK/ Examiner, Art Unit 2668
/VU LE/ Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2668
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