DETAILED ACTION
1. This Office Action is sent in response to Applicant’s communication received on 07/14/2024 for application number 19/268,690. The Office herby acknowledges receipt of the following and placed of record in file: Specification, Drawings, Abstract, Oath/Declaration, and claims.
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
2. The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Priority
3. Acknowledgment is made of applicant’s claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. 119 (a)-(d). The certified copy has been filed.
Information Disclosure Statement
4. The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 07/14/2025 is in accordance with provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
5. 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 –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
(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.
6. Claim(s) 1 and 18-20 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a1) as being anticipated by Lee et al., [US Pub. No.: 2025/0150138 A1].
Re. Claims 1, Lee et al., [US Pub. No.: 2025/0150138 A1] discloses:
A method for visual data processing [Fig.2 Flowchart for video processing video signal], comprising: determining, for a conversion between a current visual unit of visual data [Channel estimation and compression, Starts from measured downlink channel information to be compressed |0031, 0054] and a bitstream of the visual data [the quantizer performs the multi-stage vector quantization for each stage and generates the bitstream that includes the quantized channel information for transmission to the base station. |0033], a plurality of codewords in the bitstream [generate a bitstream based on the first codeword and the second codeword |0009,0056, 0074], a codeword being associated with at least one of: semantic element information, or latent variable information of at least one color component of the current visual unit [a latent vector based on the first channel matrix, selecting a first codeword from a first codebook corresponding to a first stage, and generating, in the first stage, a first residual latent vector based on the latent vector, selecting, in a second stage corresponding to the determined stage level, a second codeword from a second codebook corresponding to the second stage, and generating, in the second stage, a second residual latent vector based on the first residual latent vector, wherein the second residual latent vector is based on a second codeword, |Abstract, 0007,0033];
and performing the conversion based on the plurality of codewords [Fig.3 based on codewords a bitstream is generated].
7. Regarding claims 18-20: These claims are interpreted and rejected for the same reason set forth in claim 1 including the CRM [See Paragraphs 0179-0183].
Allowable Subject Matter
8. Claims 2-17 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.
Pertinent prior art
9. The prior art made of record and not relied upon but is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
US 20240380929 A1
US 20170034520 A1
Conclusion
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HOWARD D. BROWN JR
Primary Examiner
Art Unit 2488
/HOWARD D BROWN JR/Examiner, Art Unit 2488
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