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`16/840,906
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`04/06/2020
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`Ryuichi KANOH
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`2020-0775A
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`1332
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`2487
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`NOTIFICATION DATE
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`DELIVERY MODE
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`11/13/2020
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`ELECTRONIC
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`Part of Paper No./Mail Date 20201107
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`Application No.
`Applicant(s)
`16/840,906
`KANOH etal.
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`Office Action Summary Art Unit|AIA (FITF) StatusExaminer
`LERON BECK
`2487
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`Application/Control Number: 16/840,906
`Art Unit: 2487
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`Page 2
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`Notice of Pre-AlA or AIA Status
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`1.
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`The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013,
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`is being examined
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`under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA.
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`Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
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`2.
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`The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that
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`form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
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`A person shall be entitled to a patent unless —
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`(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, orin public use,
`on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed
`invention.
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`3.
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`Claim(s) 1, 4-5, 8 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102a1 as being anticipated by US
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`20160219290-Zhao et al (Hereinafter referred to as “Zhao’).
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`4.
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`Regarding claim 1, Zhao discloses an encoder which transforms a current
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`block to be encoded in an image to encodethe current block (fig. 5), the encoder
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`comprising: circuitry ((0068]); and memory ([0124]), wherein the circuitry, using
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`the memory ([0124]):
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`determinesa plurality of first transform basis candidates and transforms
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`the current block using a transform basis included in the plurality offirst
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`transform basis candidates determined, when the current block hasa first size
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`([0005-0006)and
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`determines one or more second transform basis candidates different from
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`the plurality of first transform basis candidates and transforms the current block
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`using a transform basis included in the one or more second transform basis
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`candidates determined ([0005-0006]), when the current block has a second size
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`larger thanthefirst size ([0086]).
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`5.
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`Regarding claim 4, analyses are analogous to those presented for claim 1
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`and are applicable for claim 4 analyses.
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`6.
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`Regarding claim 5, analyses are analogous to those presented for claim 1
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`and are applicable for claim 5 analyses, wherein decoder performs the reverse of
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`the encoder.
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`7.
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`Regarding claim 8, analyses are analogous to those presented for claim 5
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`and are applicable for claim 8 analyses.
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`Allowable Subject Matter
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`8.
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`Claims 2-3, 6-7 objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but
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`would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the
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`base claim and anyintervening claims.
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`Conclusion
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