DETAILED ACTION
1. The Office Action is in response to RCE filed on 07/13/2026. Claims 34-50, 54-56 are pending.
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
2. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Information Disclosure Statement
3. The information disclosure statements (IDS) submitted on 07/13/2026 is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statements are being considered by the examiner.
Continued Examination Under 37 CFR 1.114 4.
4. A request for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114 was filed in this application. Since this application is eligible for continued examination under 37 CFR 1.114 and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e) has been timely paid, the appeal has been withdrawn pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114 and prosecution in this application has been reopened pursuant to 37 CFR 1.114. Applicant's submission filed on 07/13/2026 has been entered.
Status of Claims
5. In the amendment 07/13/2026, claims 35, 55 and 56 have been amended. Accordingly, claims 34-50, 54-56 are pending.
Priority
Acknowledgment is made of applicant’s claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. 119 (a)-(d). The certified copy has been filed in Application 18855298 filed on 10/08/2024.
Priority # Filling Data Country
22305501.3 2022-04-08 EP
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
7. The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
8. Claim 34 and its dependent claims 35-42 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor, or for pre-AIA the applicant regards as the invention.
For claim 34, it recites the limitation “current block” in “…obtain a motion compensated block associated with a current block, wherein the motion compensated block is in the reference picture; obtain, based on the motion compensated block, an intra-coded block associated with the current block, wherein the intra-coded block is in the reference picture; determine intra mode propagation information for the current block based on a location of the intra-coded block within the reference picture relative to the boundary …” However, it is not clear whether the current block is within the current picture or within the reference picture or in some other pictures.
Thus the scope of the claim and its dependent claims 35-42 are unclear.
9. Claim 43 and its dependent claims 44-50 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor, or for pre-AIA the applicant regards as the invention.
For claim 43, it recites the limitation “current block” in “…obtaining a motion compensated block associated with a current block, wherein the motion compensated block is in the reference picture; obtaining, based on the motion compensated block, an intra-coded block associated with the current block, wherein the intra-coded block is in the reference picture; determining intra mode propagation information for the current block based on a location of the intra-coded block within the reference picture relative to the boundary…” However, it is not clear whether the current block is within the current picture or within the reference picture or in some other pictures.
Thus the scope of the claim and its dependent claims 44-50 are unclear.
10. Claim 54 and its dependent claims 55-56 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor, or for pre-AIA the applicant regards as the invention.
For claim 54, it recites the limitation “current block” in “…obtaining a motion compensated block associated with a current block, wherein the motion compensated block is in the reference picture; obtaining, based on the motion compensated block, an intra-coded block associated with the current block, wherein the intra-coded block is in the reference picture; determining intra mode propagation information for the current block based on a location of the intra-coded block within the reference picture relative to the boundary…”However, it is not clear whether the current block is within the current picture or within the reference picture or in some other pictures.
Thus the scope of the claim and its dependent claims 55-56 are unclear.
Allowable Subject Matter
11. Claims 34-42, claim 43-50, claim 54-56 would be allowable if rewritten to overcome the 112(b) rejection set forth in this Office Action.
Conclusion
12. The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. See form 892.
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/ZAIHAN JIANG/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2488
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