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 certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 08/14/2025 and 03/30/2026 were considered by the examiner.
Drawings
The drawings were received on 07/08/2025. These drawings are acceptable.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 1-20 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.
Regarding claim 1, claim limitation “wherein the second information indicates a quantity of bits selected from the memory bit” is indefinite because it is unclear how a plurality of bits can be selected from one memory bit. Similar indefinite analysis can be applied to independent claims 8 and 15. Dependent claims 2-7, 9-14, and 16-20 fall together accordingly.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-20 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action. The prior art fails to disclose or suggest the status information of an asymmetric numerical system based decoder and subsequently determining three different pieces of information that correspond to the status information as required by the claim language.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure: He US 2019/0068994 A1 discloses entropy coding a sequence of symbols using a probability model to determine a probability for the sequence and subsequently using binary arithmetic coding to map the sequence to a binary codeword. Versari et al. US 2023/0042018 A1 discloses a multi-context entropy coder that uses a combination of arithmetic coding, Huffman coding, and ANS. Akutsu et al. US 2022/0392117 A1 discloses using an ANS tensor to replace a predetermined determination processes in ANS with product-sum operation to allow parallel processing. Bamler “Understanding Entropy Coding with Assymetric Numeral Systems (ANS): A Statistician’s Perspective” discloses a new perspective of latent variables models for ANS coders. Duda “Asymmetric numeral systems” discloses a new approach to entropy encoding using ANS.
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STEFAN GADOMSKI
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2485
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