PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16110877
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["375", "240080"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to specification of a tile capable of being independently processed to process a certain area at high speed in encoding and decoding of tiles resulting from division of an image in hierarchical coding of the image. An image encoding apparatus that performs the hierarchical coding of an input image with multiple layers includes an acquiring unit and an encoding unit. The acquiring unit acquires a first image generated from the input image and a second image having resolution different from that of the first image. In the encoding of a first area in the first image acquired by the acquiring unit, the encoding unit performs the encoding using a second area existing at the relatively same position as that of the first area in the first image in the second image as a reference image.

Claim (Index 13):
An image encoding method that performs hierarchical encoding for images composing a moving image with a plurality of layers, the image encoding method comprising:\n generating a second image of a layer different from that of a first image; and encoding a first area in the first image, and a second area, corresponding to the first area, in the second image, wherein, in a case where the first area is an area being constrained so as not to refer to an area in the first image except for the first area, and the first area is an area to be encoded using inter-layer prediction which refers to at least a part of an area of the second image, encoding the first area with solely reference to the second area as the part of the area in the second image, encoding the second area without reference to another area in the second image, and encoding information which indicates that reference to an area except for the second area is constrained in the inter-layer prediction in a case where the second image is referred to in the first area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32258
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14904404', '14904171', '14384831', '14382034', '14411368']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4978856562276468
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5743824871532124
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5055353393202034
- Mean Citation Score: 311.6667240000001
- Max Citation Score: 478.95358
- Similarity Product: 411.6404143351197

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

Dataset: test