PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16205053
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["375", "240120"]

Abstract:
A method for video coding using a merge mode by a decoder or encoder. An embodiment of the method includes receiving a current block having a block size, setting a grid pattern based on the block size of the current block, wherein the grid pattern partitions a search region adjacent to the current block into search blocks, and a size of the search blocks is determined according to the block size of the current block, and searching for one or more spatial merge candidates from candidate positions in the search blocks to construct a candidate list that includes the one or more spatial merge candidates.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the searching for one or more spatial merge candidates from candidate positions in the search blocks to construct the candidate list comprises:\n sequentially performing multiple rounds of search from a nearest neighborhood of the current block to a furthest neighborhood of the current block, each round of search being performed on a respective neighborhood, wherein: (a) a first round of the multiple rounds of search is performed over the nearest neighborhood that includes the following predetermined candidate positions:\n first candidate position (d0) located at a bottom-left corner of the current block, \n second candidate position (a0) located at a left side of the current block and next to the candidate position (d0), \n third candidate position (c0) located at a top-right corner of the current block, \n fourth candidate position (b0) located at a top side of the current block and next to the reference position (c0), and \n fifth candidate position (e0) located at a top-left corner of the current block; and \n (b) a next round of the multiple rounds of search is performed over a next neighborhood after a previous round of the multiple rounds of search that is performed over a previous neighborhood, the next neighborhood is one search block away from the previous neighborhood of the current block, the next neighborhood includes the following predetermined candidate positions:\n first candidate position (dN) located one search block away leftwards from the first candidate position (dP) of the previous neighborhood, \n second candidate position (aN) located one search block away leftwards from the second candidate position (aP) of the previous neighborhood, \n third candidate position (cN) located one search block away upwards from the third candidate position (cP) of the previous neighborhood, \n fourth candidate position (bN) located one search block away upwards from the fourth candidate position (bP) of the previous neighborhood, and \n fifth candidate position (eN) located one search block away to the top-left direction of the fifth candidate position (eP) of the previous neighborhood.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05556
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16200569', '16182814', '16611611', '15053207', '13990345']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4964791797893204
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5240233601994583
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4992335978303341
- Mean Citation Score: 281.8149640000001
- Max Citation Score: 299.9985
- Similarity Product: 200.2070906953812

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