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 .
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of papers submitted under 35 U.S.C. 119(a)-(d), which papers have been placed of record in the file.
Claim Objections
Claims 1, 18-20 are objected to because of the following informalities: the amendments appear to introduce multiple periods. For example, a period appears to follow after “one of:” and “or”:
“wherein updating the motion information based on a constraint comprises at least one of:
. updating a vertical component of the motion information to be the target value, wherein a sample of the current video block is flipped horizontally, or
. updating a horizontal component of the motion information to be the target value, wherein a sample of the current video block is flipped vertically.”
Appropriate correction is required.
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)(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.
Claim(s) 20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by US 2020/0045309 A1 (“Xu”).
Regarding claim 20, Xu further discloses a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a bitstream of a video which is generated by a method performed by a video processing apparatus, wherein the method comprises: determining motion information of a current video block of the video; updating the motion information based on a constraint, the constraint indicating a target value of a component of the motion information; and generating the bitstream based on the updated motion information (e.g. see DVD, paragraph [0036]; note: the non-transitory computer-readable recording medium merely serves as a support for the bitstream, see MPEP 2111.05. No patentable weight is given to the bitstream).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-3, 6-19 are allowed.
Response to Arguments
Applicant's arguments filed 1/7/26 have been fully considered but they are not persuasive.
Applicant asserts on pages 11-12 of the Remarks that claims should be patentable because they have been amended to incorporate claims 4-5 that were indicated as allowable in the previous office action.
However, the examiner respectfully disagrees. Although claims 1-3 and 6-19 are allowed, claim 20 remains anticipated by Xu for the same reasons as indicated in the last office action. That is, the non-transitory computer-readable recording medium merely serves as a support for the bitstream, see MPEP 2111.05. No patentable weight is given to the bitstream. Therefore, Xu, in at least paragraph [0036], disclosing a DVD meet the limitations in the broadest reasonable sense.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
US 2022/0103852 A1, Wang et al., Method of video processing for calibrating motion vectors
US 2022/0053211 A1, Huo et al., Method for inter prediction method, video picture encoder and decoder
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