CTNF 19/235,502 CTNF 81626 Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status 07-03-aia AIA 15-10-aia The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA. Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112 07-34-01 Claims 1-5 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention. Independent claims 1, 3 and 5 each recite a reference samples filter flag that may have a value of TRUE or FALSE. Each independent claim also provides two sets of conditions to be implemented based on that state of the reference samples filter flag. In the first conditional set a value of TRUE causes filtering by a [1, 2, 1] filter and a value of false results in no reference sample filtering. In the second conditional set a value of TRUE selects either a Gaussian filter or a Cubic filter dependent on transform block size and a value of FALSE selects a Cubic filter for reference sample filtering. The independent claims present two conflicting sets of conditions to be implemented based on the state of the reference samples filter flag, as the reference samples cannot be simultaneously not be filtered and also be filtered using a Cubic interpolation filter. Thus the meets and bounds of the claim are unclear. For the purposes of examination the examiner will use treat the first set of conditions as being included in the claims, and will address the second set of conditions as not being included in the claims. Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102 07-06 AIA 15-10-15 In the event the determination of the status of the application as subject to AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103 (or as subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102 and 103) is incorrect, any correction of the statutory basis (i.e., changing from AIA to pre-AIA) for the rejection will not be considered a new ground of rejection if the prior art relied upon, and the rationale supporting the rejection, would be the same under either status. 07-07-aia AIA 07-07 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 – 07-12-aia AIA (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. 07-15-03-aia AIA Claim (s) 1-5 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) as being anticipated by Joshi et al . A coder comprising: a sequence of filters that are configurable by one or more primary parameters and one or more secondary parameters (Joshi Figs 3-4 and pars 110-135, note pars 134-135 for mode dependent intra smoothing filters including a [1 2 1]/4 reference sample filter and further 1/32-pel bi-linear interpolation filter) wherein the sequence of filters comprises: a reference sample filter configured to adaptively filter one or more neighboring samples of a current video block to obtain one or more reference samples (Joshi par. 134 note mode dependent intra smoothing that uses a [1 2 1]/4 filter for certain block sizes, further note a stronger filter may be used for larger blocks), and an interpolation filter configured to predict one or more samples of the current video block using an interpolation of the one or more reference samples (Joshi par. 135 note 1/32 pel interpolation filter used to generate predictors for the current block); wherein the one or more primary parameters comprise a reference samples filter flag signalling a value FALSE for predicted blocks subject to no reference samples filtering and signalling a value TRUE for predicted block subject for filtering by a {1, 2, 1} filter, and the one or more secondary parameters comprise a selected parameter of the interpolation filter (Joshi pars 134-134 note intra prediction using a [1 2 1]/4 smoothing filter according to JCTVC-M1005-v2, further note pars 152-176 for details of JCTVC-M1005-v2, particularly note pars 152-164 determining whether a filterFlag is set equal to 0 or 1 note par 176 when filterFlag is 0, or FALSE, no filtering is performed, finally note pars 152 and 165-175 when filterFlag is 1, or TRUE and biIntFlag is 0 then the [1 2 1]/4 smoothing filter is applied). In regard to claim 2 Joshi further discloses that the reference sample filter is located in the sequence of filters before the interpolation filter (Joshi pars 134-135 note references smoothing filter described in par 134 and 1/12 pel bi-linear interpolation filter in par. 135, further note pars 113-129 that bi-linear interpolation is performed on reference samples and is hence performed after the reference sample smoothing in par. 134). Claims 3-5 describe a coding method and a non-transitory medium storing instructions that cause a processor to execute method steps corresponding to the processes performed by the video coding device of claims 1-2. Refer to the statements made in the regard to claims 1-2 above for the rejection of claims 3-5 which will not be repeated here for brevity. Conclusion Any inquiry concerning this communication or earlier communications from the examiner should be directed to JEREMIAH CHARLES HALLENBECK-HUBER whose telephone number is (571)272-5248. 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