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 4):
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 performing a first round of search over a first set of predetermined candidate positions in a nearest neighborhood of the current block, the first set of predetermined candidate positions including:\n candidate position (d0) located at a bottom-left corner of the current block, \n candidate position (a0) located at a left side of the current block and next to the candidate position (d0), \n candidate position (c0) located at a top-right corner of the current block, \n candidate position (b0) located at a top side of the current block and next to the reference position (c0), and \n candidate position (e0) located at a top-left corner of the current block; and \n performing a second round of search over a second set of predetermined candidate positions in a neighborhood that is one search block away from the current block and next to the nearest neighborhood of the current block, the second set of predetermined candidate positions including:\n candidate position (d1) located one search block away leftwards from the candidate position (d0), \n candidate position (a1) located one search block away leftwards from the candidate position (a0), \n candidate position (c1) located one search block away upwards from the candidate position (c0), \n candidate position (b1) located one search block away upwards from the candidate position (b0), and \n candidate position (e1) located one search block away to the top-left direction of the candidate position (e0).

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): 0.4959900502958127
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5273049719372984
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4991215424599613
- Mean Citation Score: 281.8149640000001
- Max Citation Score: 299.9985
- Similarity Product: 182.53957554066184

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