DETAILED ACTION
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 .
Status of the Claims
Currently, claims 1-17 are pending in the application. Claims 1-17 are amended.
Response to Arguments / Amendments
Rejections under 35 U.S.C. §101:
In the light of amendment to claim 17, the examiner withdraws the previously made rejection under 35 U.S.C. §101.
Rejections under 35 U.S.C. §112:
In the light of amendment to claim 17, the examiner withdraws the previously made rejection under 35 U.S.C. §112.
Rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 103:
Applicant’s arguments have been fully considered but are rendered moot in view of the new ground of rejection necessitated by amendments initiated by the applicant.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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 1-2, 11 & 17 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a) (1) as being anticipated by PALURI et al. (US 20210021834, hereinafter PALURI)
Regarding Claim 1, PALURI discloses a method of reconstructing a current block, performed by a video decoding device, the method comprising:
acquiring reconstructed pictures and a vector field from a buffer ([0071] FIG. 2, predictor 230 derives a prediction sample for a current block based on a sample specified in a reference picture according to a motion vector using one of the skip mode, the merge mode and the MVP (Motion vector Prediction) mode);
generating a prediction block of the current block based on intra prediction using reconstructed neighboring samples ([0077] a motion vector predictor candidate list may be generated using a motion vector of a reconstructed spatial neighboring block and/or a motion vector corresponding to a Col block which is a temporal neighboring block when the MVP (Motion vector Prediction) mode is applied -i.e. the motion vector of the reconstructed spatial neighboring block and/or the motion vector corresponding to the Col block which is the temporal neighboring block may be used as motion vector candidates; [0092] FIG. 4, decode motion vector and update a motion vector field (MVF) of each coding unit or prediction unit storing a motion vector, a reference index, list information, prediction mode information in the MVF); and
storing vector information corresponding to a position of the current block in the vector field based on a prediction mode according to the intra prediction ([0077] predictor 230 selects a prediction motion vector of the current block from the motion vector candidates included in the motion vector candidate list using the motion vector index and acquires a motion vector included in the information about prediction and derive the motion vector of the current block by adding the motion vector difference to the motion vector predictor; [0092] FIG. 4, decode motion vector and update a motion vector field (MVF) of each coding unit or prediction unit storing a motion vector, a reference index, list information, prediction mode information in the MVF).
Regarding Claim 2, PALURI discloses the method of claim 1, PALURI discloses dividing a current coding block region corresponding to the current block into grids of the ([0092] FIG. 4, decode motion vector and update a motion vector field (MVF) of each coding unit or prediction unit storing a motion vector, a reference index, list information, prediction mode information in the MVF).
Regarding Claim 11, Encoding method claim 11 of using the corresponding decoding method claimed in claims 1, and the rejections of which are incorporated herein for the same reasons as used above.
Regarding Claim 17, Computer-readable encoding method claim 11 of using the corresponding decoding method claimed in claims 1, and the rejections of which are incorporated herein for the same reasons as used above.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-10 & 12-16 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claims, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action.
THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
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/SAMUEL D FEREJA/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2487
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