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The present application is being examined under the pre-AIA first to invent provisions
The amendments to the claims, filed on 06/24/2026, have been entered and made of record.
Claims 1-20 are pending with claim 1 being amended and claims 2-20 being newly added.
Response to Arguments
Arguments presented in the Remarks (“Remarks") filed on 06/24/2026 have been fully considered but are rendered moot in view of the new ground(s) of rejection necessitated by amendment(s) initiated by the applicant(s).
Double Patenting
The nonstatutory double patenting rejection is based on a judicially created doctrine grounded in public policy (a policy reflected in the statute) so as to prevent the unjustified or improper timewise extension of the “right to exclude” granted by a patent and to prevent possible harassment by multiple assignees. A nonstatutory obviousness-type double patenting rejection is appropriate where the conflicting claims are not identical, but at least one examined application claim is not patentably distinct from the reference claim(s) because the examined application claim is either anticipated by, or would have been obvious over, the reference claim(s). See, e.g., In re Berg, 140 F.3d 1428, 46 USPQ2d 1226 (Fed. Cir. 1998); In re Goodman, 11 F.3d 1046, 29 USPQ2d 2010 (Fed. Cir. 1993); In re Longi, 759 F.2d 887, 225 USPQ 645 (Fed. Cir. 1985); In re Van Ornum, 686 F.2d 937, 214 USPQ 761 (CCPA 1982); In re Vogel, 422 F.2d 438, 164 USPQ 619 (CCPA 1970); and In re Thorington, 418 F.2d 528, 163 USPQ 644 (CCPA 1969).
A timely filed terminal disclaimer in compliance with 37 CFR 1.321(c) or 1.321(d) may be used to overcome an actual or provisional rejection based on a nonstatutory double patenting ground provided the conflicting application or patent either is shown to be commonly owned with this application, or claims an invention made as a result of activities undertaken within the scope of a joint research agreement.
Effective January 1, 1994, a registered attorney or agent of record may sign a terminal disclaimer. A terminal disclaimer signed by the assignee must fully comply with 37 CFR 3.73(b).
Claim 1 is rejected on the ground of nonstatutory obviousness-type double patenting as being unpatentable over claim 1 of U.S Patent No. 11,689,738 and U.S Patent No. 10,887,617 and claim 17 of U.S Patent No. 10,264,277. Although the conflicting claims are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because the instant claims are similar to the claims in the U.S patents to meet the claimed limitations in the instant application. Table 1 shows comparison between the instant claims and the U.S patents.
This is a non-provisionally obviousness-type double patenting rejection because the conflicting claims have in fact been patented.
Table 1: Comparison of claims in instant Application No. 19/051780 vs. U.S Patent Nos. 11,689,738, 10,887,617 and 10,264,277
Appl. 19/051780
Appl. 17/129457 (US Pat. 11,689,738)
Appl. 16/291146 (US Pat. 10,887,617)
Appl. 14/273701 (US Pat. 10,264,277)
1. A decoder for decoding a multi-view signal representing a video, comprising:
a renderer configured for rendering, using a processor, a renderable portion of a first view of the multi-view signal, by view synthesis, based on a constructed signal of a second view of the multi-view signal to generate a rendered reference signal;
an extractor configured for extracting, from a data stream, using the processor, a residual signal;
a view predictor configured for performing, using the processor, a block-based motion prediction based on the rendered reference signal to obtain a prediction signal;
and
a reconstructor configured for reconstructing the first view based on the prediction signal and the residual.
1. A decoder for decoding a multi-view signal representing a video, the decoder comprising:
a renderer configured for rendering, using a processor, a renderable portion of a first view of the multi-view signal, by view synthesis, based on a reconstructed signal of a second view of the multi-view signal to generate a rendered reference signal;
an extractor configured for extracting, from the data stream, using the processor, a residual signal;
a view predictor configured for performing, using the processor, a block-based prediction based on a reference signal from a plurality of reference signals, which includes the rendered reference signal and the reconstructed signal of the second view, to obtain a prediction signal; and
a reconstructor configured for reconstructing the multi-view signal based on the prediction signal and the residual signal.
1. A decoder for decoding a multi-view signal representing a video, comprising:
a renderer configured for rendering, using a processor, a renderable portion of a first view of the multi-view signal, by view synthesis, based on a second view of the multi-view signal to generate a rendered portion of the first view;
an extractor configured for extracting, from the data stream, using the processor, a first residual signal and a second residual signal;
a view predictor configured for performing, using the processor, a block-based motion prediction based on the rendered portion and a non-renderable portion of the first view, at least by obtaining a first set of motion prediction parameters associated with the rendered portion, and
generating a prediction signal based on the rendered portion, the first set of motion prediction parameters, the non-renderable portion, and a second set of motion prediction parameters associated with the non-renderable portion;
a parameter predictor configured for obtaining, using the processor, the second set of motion prediction parameters based on the first set of motion prediction parameters and the second residual; and
a reconstructor configured for reconstructing the first view based on the prediction signal and the first residual.
17. A decoder for decoding a multi-view signal representing a video, comprising:
a renderer configured for rendering, using a processor, a renderable portion of a first view of the multi-view signal, by view synthesis, based on a second view of the multi-view signal to generate a rendered portion of the first view;
an extractor configured for extracting, from the data stream, using the processor, a first residual signal and a second residual signal;
a view predictor configured for performing, using the processor, a block-based motion prediction based on the rendered portion and a non-renderable portion of the first view, at least by obtaining a first set of motion prediction parameters associated with the rendered portion, and
generating a prediction signal based on the rendered portion with the associated first set of motion prediction parameters and the non-renderable portion of the first view with an associated second set of motion prediction parameters, wherein the first residual is associated with the non-renderable portion; and
a parameter predictor configured for predicting, using the processor, the second set of motion prediction parameters based on the first set of motion prediction parameters and the second residual.
Conclusion
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/PETER D LE/
Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2488
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