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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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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.
Claim(s) 1-2, 6-8, 12 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by US 2023/0033616 A1 (“Han”).
Regarding claim 1, Han discloses a method of transmitting point cloud data, the method comprising:
encoding point cloud data (e.g. see Fig. 1 showing encoder 4613 encoding point cloud data, paragraph [0185]); and
transmitting a bitstream containing the point cloud data (e.g. see transmission signal output from the three-dimensional data encoding system 4601 to the three-dimensional data decoding system 4602 as shown in Fig. 1, paragraph [0189]).
Regarding claim 2, Han further discloses wherein the encoding of the point cloud data comprises:
encoding geometry data of the point cloud data (e.g. see Fig. 85 showing first encoder 5200 encoding geometry information using geometry information encoder 5202, paragraph [0684]); and
encoding attribute data of the point cloud data (e.g. see Fig. 85 showing first encoder 5200 encoding attribute information using attribute information encoder 5203, paragraph [0686]),
wherein the encoding of the geometry data comprises:
performing context-based arithmetic encoding on the geometry data (e.g. see Fig. 87 showing geometry information encoder 5202 using CABAC, paragraphs [0671], [0685]), and
wherein the encoding of the attribute data comprises:
performing context-based arithmetic encoding on the attribute data (e.g. see Fig. 87 showing attribute information encoder 5203 using CABAC, paragraphs [0671], [0687]).
Regarding claims 6-8, 12, the claims recite analogous limitations to the claims above and are therefore rejected on the same premise.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 3-5, 9-11 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
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US 20210319593 A1, Flynn, SIGNIFICANT COEFFICIENT FLAG ENCODING FOR POINT CLOUD ATTRIBUTE COMPRESSION
US 20250337436 A1, Yang et al., ENCODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, ENCODER, DECODER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
US 20250254330 A1, Lo Bianco et al.,
CONTEXT-ADAPTIVE BINARY ARITHMETIC CODING UPDATE REFINEMENT
US 20160043735 A1, Zhou, SIMPLIFIED RANGE AND CONTEXT UPDATE FOR MULTIMEDIA CONTEXT-ADAPTIVE BINARY ARITHMETIC CODING DESIGN
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