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 .
2. Applicant has canceled claims 13-14 in a preliminary amendment and added claims17-22. Currently, claims 1-12 and 15-22 are pending. Examiner refers to the action below.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
3. 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)(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 1, 6-7, 15-16, and 21-22 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Wang et al. (CN 111754406 A).
Regarding claim 1: Wang et al. discloses an image processing method, comprising:
acquiring an original image, and extracting high-frequency information and low-frequency information in the original image (abstract, figs 2 and 3 elements S10-S15, from a high frequency image the high frequency residual error is acquired and added to a down sampled image to obtain a low frequency image with high frequency residual error added to it.);
extracting content dependent information in the high-frequency information, and writing the content dependent information into the low-frequency information, to obtain a low-resolution image corresponding to the original image (abstract, figs 2 and 3 elements S10-S15, from a high frequency image the high frequency residual error is acquired and added to a down sampled image to obtain a low frequency image with high frequency residual error added to it.).
Regarding claim 6: The method according to claim 1, wherein the extracting high-frequency information and low-frequency information in the original image, comprises:
downsampling the original image to obtain the low-frequency information; determining initial high-frequency information based on the original image and a high-resolution low-frequency image obtained by upsampling the low-frequency information; and rearranging spatial pixels in the initial high-frequency information to a channel dimension, to obtain high-frequency information matched with the low-frequency information; or,
performing filtering transform on the original image, to obtain the high-frequency information and the low-frequency information in the original image (abstract, figs 2 and 3 elements S10-S15).
Regarding claim 7: Wang et al. discloses an image processing method, comprising:
acquiring a low-resolution image, and extracting content dependent information in low-frequency information and high-frequency information based on the low-resolution image (abstract, figs 2 and 3 elements S10-S15). ;
determining the high-frequency information based on the content dependent information, and fusing the high-frequency information and the low-frequency information to obtain the original image corresponding to the low-resolution image (abstract, figs 2 and 3 elements S10-S15).
Regarding claim 15: See claim 1.
Regarding claim 16: See claim 1.
Regarding claim 21: See claim 7.
Regarding claim 22: See claim 7.
Allowable Subject Matter
4. Claim 2-5, 8-12, and 17-20 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.
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/ANAND P BHATNAGAR/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2668
September 5, 2026
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