PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16135900
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["375", "240150"]

Abstract:
An image coding method bitstream includes: determining a maximum number of a merging candidate which is a combination of a prediction direction, a motion vector, and a reference picture index for use in coding of a current block; deriving a first merging candidate; determining whether or not a total number of the first merging candidate is smaller than the maximum number; deriving a second merging candidate when it is determined that the total number of the first merging candidate is smaller than the maximum number; selecting a merging candidate for use in the coding of the current block from the first merging candidate and the second merging candidate; and coding, using the maximum number, an index for identifying the selected merging candidate, and attaching the coded index to the bitstream.

Claim (Index 3):
The image decoding method according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n removing an unusable-for-merging candidate from the plurality of first merging candidates before determining whether or not the total number of first merging candidates is less than the fixed candidate number.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53571
- Patent Class: 375.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15797798', '13477606', '13482411', '15379993', '15867203']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5113024372368161
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5581623300119759
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5159884265143322
- Mean Citation Score: 409.131274
- Max Citation Score: 421.61887
- Similarity Product: 377.6154643473577

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