PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966792
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["375", "240160"]

Abstract:
Several methods and systems for encoding pictures are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method comprises dividing an LCU of a picture into a plurality of MERs having size equal to or less than a predetermined size. For one or more MERs of the plurality of MERs, a number of first motion searches are performed for determining a first quad-tree based on a cost function associated with a first plurality of PUs of the one or more MERs. A number of second motion searches are performed for the LCU, for determining a second quad-tree, based on the cost function associated with a second plurality of PUs of the LCU. The first quad-tree or the second quad-tree is selected for performing encoding of the picture based on a comparison of a first cost of the first quad-tree with a second cost of the second quad-tree.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for encoding a picture, comprising:\n dividing a largest coding unit (LCU) of the picture into a plurality of motion estimation regions (MERs), size of each MER from among the plurality of MERs being equal to or less than a predetermined size; performing, for one or more MERs from among the plurality of MERs, a number of first motion searches so as to determine one or more first quad-trees, a first plurality of prediction units (PUs) being associated with the each of the one or more MERs, each of the one or more first quad-trees being determined based on a cost function associated with the first plurality of PUs; performing, for the LCU, a number of second motion searches so as to determine a second quad-tree, a second plurality of PUs being associated with the LCU, and the second quad-tree being determined based on a cost function associated with the second plurality of PUs; and selecting a quad-tree from among the one or more first quad-trees and the second quad-tree so as to implement an encoding device to encode the picture based on a comparison of a first cost of the one or more first quad-trees with a second cost of the second quad-tree, the first cost and the second cost being determined based on the cost function.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15401807', '13762953', '15754721', '13836174', '14137510']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4768159148043192
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.616013260736133
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4907356493975006
- Mean Citation Score: 373.56454
- Max Citation Score: 565.2113
- Similarity Product: 497.2903986804605

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

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