Ex Parte SUZUKI

Patent Trials and Appeals Board

Jun 28, 2019

15250331 - (D) (P.T.A.B. Jun. 28, 2019)

UNITED STA TES p A TENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
APPLICATION NO. FILING DATE
15/250,331 08/29/2016
154930 7590
XSENSUS LLP
200 Daingerfield Road
Suite 201
Alexandria, VA 22314
07/02/2019
FIRST NAMED INVENTOR
Teruhiko SUZUKI
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Address: COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450
www .uspto.gov
ATTORNEY DOCKET NO. CONFIRMATION NO.
10845US011CON 5016
EXAMINER
LEE, YYOUNG
ART UNIT PAPER NUMBER
2485
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07/02/2019 ELECTRONIC
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PTOL-90A (Rev. 04/07)
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
Exparte TERUHIKO SUZUKI 1
Appeal2017-011841
Application 15/250,331
Technology Center 2400
Before CAROLYN D. THOMAS, JOSEPH P. LENTIVECH, and
SCOTT RAEVSKY, Administrative Patent Judges.
RAEVSKY, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellant seeks our review under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a) of the
Examiner's Final Rejection of claims 2-5, all the pending claims in the
present application (see Claims Appendix). We have jurisdiction over the
appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b ). 2
We AFFIRM.
1 Appellants identify Sony Corporation as the real party in interest (App.
Br. 1).
2 An oral hearing for this appeal was held on June 25, 2019.
Appeal2017-011841
Application 15/250,331
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Appellant's claimed invention generally relates to a decoding device
that processes bitstreams. See Abstract. Claim 2, reproduced below, is
illustrative of the claimed subject matter:
2. A decoding method, comprising:
acquiring, from a bitstream, identification information
identifying whether pictures in randomly accessible
predetermined section do not refer to pictures included in
another predetermined section, broken-link information, and
buffer characteristic information, which includes a plurality of
combinations of buffer size information and bit rate information
as criteria for determining whether the bitstream is decodable
using a decoder buff er size and a decoding bit rate, the buff er
size information indicating a required buff er size of a buff er
that stores the bitstream during decoding of the bitstream and
the bit rate information indicating an input bit rate of the buffer;
and
decoding the bitstream using the identification
information, the broken-link information, and the buffer
characteristic information.
REJECTION
Claims 2-5 are rejected under pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. § I02(b) as being
anticipated by Boon (US 6,418,268 Bl, publ. July 9, 2002). Final Act. 2.
We review the appealed rejections for error based upon the issues
identified by Appellant and in light of the arguments and evidence produced
thereon. Ex parte Frye, 94 USPQ2d 1072, 1075 (BPAI 2010) (precedential).
2
Appeal2017-011841
Application 15/250,331
ANALYSIS
Claims 2 and 3
Appellant initially contends Boon fails to disclose independent claim
2' s "plurality of combinations of buffer size information and bit rate
information." App. Br. 4--5 (emphasis omitted). In particular, Appellant
contends "[ e ]lement 804 in Table 4 of Boon includes one entry for
'bit_rate' and one entry 'vbv_buffer_size, "' rather than a "plurality of
combinations." Id. at 4. Table 4 of Boon is reproduced below (highlighting
the relevant parameters):
TABLE 4
80J - Video Object Layer( .if No. of bits :;v[neinonic
802 vi(.ko .... objccl .... li,yer ... starl ... code 32
/'4kast. significant bits specify vilko_object_laycr_id value'"/
814 - rnni.lom accessibk vol 1
is ... ob j,,ct .... h1ycr .. .itkntificI 1t
0
l
if(i, .... :1bject ... -Jaycr ... identifier){
803 visual...objcct. .. hiycr...vcrid 4
visua]objcct lay~r priority 3
}
vol ... contro l .... ram.meters
if(vol_cou tro l_parameterl'.)
aspect_tatio_info 4
vo rare code 4
804 bit rate 30
}
c roma ... .lormat
low .... clday
viclco .... ubjcct ... la yn ... shapc
805 vop ___ time ___ _i.ncrnmc11t.__ __ resolution
fixed_ v,:,p _rnte
806 - if(video ... ohject.Jayer ... shape1="binaty only"){
if(video_object_lnyer_shape=="rectnngular'') (
m<1rker_bi1
vidw ... ob_iect . .layer ... ,vidlh
807 milrkcr_bit
vi