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 .
DETAILED ACTION
Summary
This office action for US Patent application 19/034911 is responsive to communications filed on June 15th, 2026. Currently, claims 1-21 are pending are presented for examination while claim 20 was canceled.
Response to Arguments
On pages 6-9, applicant’s arguments with respect to claims 1, 17 have been considered. The applicant is arguing that the amended claims overcome the references. While applicant’s arguments have been considered and understood, the examiner respectfully agree. However, the examiner objects those claims 1 and 17 because the term “according to sequential order” does not have its antecedent basis. The examiner will consider its allowability until the applicant clarify this issue in claims 1 and 17. The newly added claim 21 has a very broad subject matter and it is totally different from the claims 1 and 17 in which the plurality of decoding modules do not comprise at least one two of a Region of Interest (ROI) module, a temporal upsampling module, a spatial upsampling module, a post filtering module, a bit depth restoration module, or a format adapter module. The claim 21 will require a different search and different interpretation from the claims 1 and 17. Therefore, the examiner will restrict the claim 21 in this office action. Because the claim 21 does not include those above modules and if the decoding modules only include one module, then the sequential order becomes meaningless as the examiner mentioned in the interview.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1 and 17 would be allowable until its objection is address.
New Conclusion
Applicant's amendment necessitated the new ground(s) of rejection presented in this Office action. Accordingly, THIS ACTION IS MADE FINAL. See MPEP § 706.07(a). Applicant is reminded of the extension of time policy as set forth in 37 CFR 1.136(a).
A shortened statutory period for reply to this final action is set to expire THREE MONTHS from the mailing date of this action. In the event a first reply is filed within TWO MONTHS of the mailing date of this final action and the advisory action is not mailed until after the end of the THREE-MONTH shortened statutory period, then the shortened statutory period will expire on the date the advisory action is mailed, and any extension fee pursuant to 37 CFR 1.136(a) will be calculated from the mailing date of the advisory action. In no event, however, will the statutory period for reply expire later than SIX MONTHS from the date of this final action.
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/NAM D PHAM/ Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2487
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