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Double Patenting
3. Claims 1-3 are rejected under the judicially created doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 3-4 of Patent No. 12,132,927, in view of Hallapuro et al. (US Publication 2009/0304084).
Although the conflicting claims are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because Claims 3-4 of Patent No. 12,132,927 contain every element of claims 1-3 of the instant application except for the limitations “transmit data including selection information” as recited in claim 1, “encode mode information” as recited in claims 2 and 3.
Hallapuro discloses (see fig’s 1, 5a and 5b, para’s 0036-0046 and 0050-0051), FIG. 1 illustrates a transmission apparatus for sending encoded signal from a source to a renderer through a network gateway. FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a representative video decoder. As shown in FIG. 3, entropy decoding 300 is followed by both prediction error decoding 302 and pixel prediction 304. In prediction error decoding 302, an inverse transform 306 and inverse quantization 308 is performed, resulting in a reconstructed prediction error signal 312. For pixel prediction 304, either intra-prediction or inter-prediction occurs at 314 to create a predicted representation of an image block 316. The predicted representation of the image block 316 is used in conjunction with the reconstructed prediction error signal 312 to create a preliminary reconstructed image 318, which in turn can be used both for prediction 314. Once all of the image blocks have been processed, the preliminary reconstructed image 318 is passed for filtering 320. The filtered image can also be stored in reference frame memory 324, making it usable for prediction 314 as well. Selecting a list of vectors as predictors “available blocks” from among a plurality of candidate blocks, the plurality of candidate blocks includes a block adjacent to a top of the current “target” block of an intra-coding; encoding the current “target” block using motion information of the selected predictor “selected block”).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention to incorporate Hallapuro’s features into the invention of Patent #12,132,927 because doing so can reduce compression coding and save processing resources.
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention to incorporate Hallapuro’s features into the invention of Patent #12,132,927 because doing so can reduce compression coding and save processing resources.
4. Claims 1-3 are rejected under the judicially created doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 3-4 of Patent No. 12,425,629, in view of Hallapuro et al. (US Publication 2009/0304084).
Although the conflicting claims are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because Claims 3-4 of Patent No. 12,425,629 contain every element of claims 1-3 of the instant application except for the limitations “transmit data including selection information” as recited in claim 1, “encode mode information” as recited in claims 2 and 3.
Hallapuro discloses (see fig’s 1, 5a and 5b, para’s 0036-0046 and 0050-0051), FIG. 1 illustrates a transmission apparatus for sending encoded signal from a source to a renderer through a network gateway. FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a representative video decoder. As shown in FIG. 3, entropy decoding 300 is followed by both prediction error decoding 302 and pixel prediction 304. In prediction error decoding 302, an inverse transform 306 and inverse quantization 308 is performed, resulting in a reconstructed prediction error signal 312. For pixel prediction 304, either intra-prediction or inter-prediction occurs at 314 to create a predicted representation of an image block 316. The predicted representation of the image block 316 is used in conjunction with the reconstructed prediction error signal 312 to create a preliminary reconstructed image 318, which in turn can be used both for prediction 314. Once all of the image blocks have been processed, the preliminary reconstructed image 318 is passed for filtering 320. The filtered image can also be stored in reference frame memory 324, making it usable for prediction 314 as well. Selecting a list of vectors as predictors “available blocks” from among a plurality of candidate blocks, the plurality of candidate blocks includes a block adjacent to a top of the current “target” block of an intra-coding; encoding the current “target” block using motion information of the selected predictor “selected block”).
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of the invention to incorporate Hallapuro’s features into the invention of Patent #12,425,629 because doing so can reduce compression coding and save processing resources.
Claims 1-3 of the instant application therefore are not patently distinct from the earlier patent claims and as such are unpatentable over obvious-type double patenting.
5. The following prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant’s disclosure.
Rusert et al., US Publication 2011/0194609
Lee et al., US Publication 2010/0080296
Conclusion
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