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 2):
The image decoding method according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n removing an identical 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): 0.5108715054381069
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5588967949811423
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5156740343924104
- Mean Citation Score: 409.131274
- Max Citation Score: 421.61887
- Similarity Product: 385.7457155201471

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