PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15950295
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["704", "500000"]

Abstract:
A better compromise between a too high bitstream and decoding overhead on the one hand and flexibility of frame element positioning on the other hand is achieved by arranging that each of the sequence of frames of the bitstream has a sequence of N frame elements and, on the other hand, the bitstream has a configuration block having a field indicating the number of elements N and a type indication syntax portion indicating, for each element position of the sequence of N element positions, an element type out of a plurality of element types with, in the sequences of N frame elements of the frames, each frame element being of the element type indicated, by the type indication portion, for the respective element position at which the respective frame element is positioned within the sequence of N frame elements of the respective frame in the bitstream.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for decoding a bitstream comprising a configuration block and a sequence of frames respectively representing consecutive time periods of an audio content, wherein the configuration block comprises a field indicating a number of elements N, and a type indication syntax portion indicating, for each element position of a sequence of N element positions, an element type out of a plurality of element types, and wherein each of the sequence of frames comprises a sequence of N frame elements, wherein the method comprises decoding each frame by\n decoding each frame element in accordance with the element type indicated, by the type indication syntax portion, for the respective element position at which the respective frame element is positioned within the sequence of N frame elements of the respective frame in the bitstream, wherein the plurality of element types comprises an extension element type, wherein the method further comprises reading, from each frame element of the extension element type of any frame, a length information on a length of the respective frame element, skipping at least a portion of at least some of the frame elements of the extension element type of the frames using the length information on the length of the respective frame element as skip interval length, wherein the decoder is further configured to, in reading the configuration block, for each element position for which the type indication syntax portion indicates the extension element type, read a configuration element comprising configuration information for the extension element type from the bitstream, wherein the configuration information comprises an extension element type field indicating a payload data type out of a plurality of payload data types, wherein the plurality of payload data types comprises a multi-channel side information type and a multi-object coding side information type, the reading the configuration block comprises, for each element position for which the type indication syntax portion indicates the extension element type,\n if the extension element type field indicates the multi-channel side information type, reading multi-channel side information configuration data as part of the configuration information from the bitstream, and if the extension element type field indicates the multi-object coding side information type, reading multi-object side information configuration data as part of the configuration information from the bitstream, and \n the method comprises, in decoding each frame, decoding the frame elements of the extension element type positioned at any element position for which the type indication syntax portion indicates the extension element type, and for which the extension element type of the configuration element indicates the multi-channel side information type, by configuring a multi-channel decoder using the multi-channel side information configuration data and feeding the thus configured multi-channel decoder with payload data of the respective frame elements of the extension element type as multi-channel side information, and decoding the frame elements of the extension element type positioned at any element position for which the type indication syntax portion indicates the extension element type, and for which the extension element type of the configuration element indicates the multi-object coding side information type, by configuring a multi-object decoder using the multi-object side information configuration data and feeding the thus configured multi-object decoder with payload data of the respective frame elements of the extension element type as multi-object side information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54098
- Patent Class: 704.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15613484', '14029058', '14029073', '14029054', '15546965']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.306311879036763
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.626697509638962
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3383504420969829
- Mean Citation Score: 460.9995660000001
- Max Citation Score: 566.89465
- Similarity Product: 551.5868330851971

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

Dataset: test