PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16119363
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["375", "240250"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to concatenating or splicing of scalable video bitstreams. There are disclosed various methods, apparatuses and computer program products for video encoding and decoding and modifying coded video bitstreams. In some embodiments, indications are provided in the coded video bitstream to indicate a layer-wise decoding start-up process. These indications may be generated by encoders or splicers.

Claim (Index 3):
The apparatus according to  claim 1  wherein the apparatus is further caused to, when the second array variable of the scalability layer with index i is equal to 0, generate unavailable pictures for the reference pictures of the first picture in decoding order in an enhancement layer with index i.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.33333
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14447952', '14659131', '14514044', '14583371', '15645753']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4774887030159927
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.535710379303388
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4833108706447322
- Mean Citation Score: 267.050742
- Max Citation Score: 346.66747999999984
- Similarity Product: 235.93434056495656

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