PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940839
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["375", "240080"]

Abstract:
A favorable merging or grouping of simply connected regions into which the array of information samples is sub-divided, is coded with a reduced amount of data. To this end, a predetermined relative locational relationship is defined enabling an identifying, for a predetermined simply connected region, of simply connected regions within the plurality of simply connected regions which have the predetermined relative locational relationship to the predetermined simply connected region. Namely, if the number is zero, a merge indicator for the predetermined simply connected region may be absent within the data stream. In other embodiments, spatial sub-division is performed depending on a first subset of syntax elements, followed by combining spatially neighboring simply connected regions depending on a second subset of syntax elements, to obtain an intermediate sub-division.

Claim (Index 7):
A method of decoding arrays of information samples encoded in a data stream each representing a picture at a resolution level, the method comprising:\n extracting, from the data stream, a merge indicator with respect to a region currently being decoded within an array of information samples, wherein the region currently being decoded is one of a plurality of regions obtained by dividing the array of information samples and the merge indicator is indicative of whether the region currently being decoded is to be reconstructed based on at least one coding parameter determined based on one or more coding parameters associated with a selected candidate region of the resolution level, identifying a set of candidate regions of the resolution level with respect to the region currently being decoded, if a number of candidate regions in the set is greater than one, extracting a candidate identifier from the data stream, and selecting the selected candidate region from the set of candidate regions in accordance with the candidate identifier; copying, if the merge indicator specifies to copy, the at least one coding parameter from the one or more coding parameters; computing, if the merge indicator specifies to compute, the at least one coding parameter based on the one or more coding parameters; and reconstructing the region currently being decoded based on the at least one coding parameter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94444
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13650635', '13649251', '15196890', '15196113', '15195407']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5649573786137491
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6103759628558485
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.569499237037959
- Mean Citation Score: 432.752964
- Max Citation Score: 537.7988
- Similarity Product: 524.2577410134314

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