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Mountable Printable Placard With Headband

A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.

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Examiner: Krasnic, Bernard


Primary examiner statistics: 18 patents; average approval time: N/A
Assistant examiner statistics: 96 patents; average approval time: 115 days

Patents as Primary Examiner

Patent No. Patent Title:
8189932 Image processing apparatus and image processing method
8180130 Method for X-ray marker localization in 3D space in the presence ...
8175401 Image processing apparatus and computer readable medium storing p...
8170366 Image processing using optically transformed light
8165388 Neutral pixel detection in an image path
8165358 System and method for overlaying color cues on a virtual represen...
8155454 Method and apparatus for encoder assisted post-processing
8150172 Video coding mode selection using estimated coding costs
8150173 Image coding method and apparatus, and image decoding method and ...
8111915 Apparatus and method of enhancing color of image
8107762 Systems, methods, and apparatus for exposure control
8103082 Optimizing virtual slide image quality
8098933 Method and apparatus for partitioning an object from an image
8094954 Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image pro...
8094950 Signal processor
8094929 Color identifying apparatus and color identifying method
8077985 Device, method, and program for compressing image data
8068666 Method for reading test strips

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
8094928 Stereo video for gaming
8086053 Method and apparatus for transforming and inverse-transforming im...
8073248 Automatic detection of calibration charts in images
8073269 Image decoding apparatus and image decoding method
8050497 Image processing apparatus and control method thereof
8041115 Method and apparatus for determining a classification boundary fo...
8041126 Intelligent document scanning
8041113 Image processing device, image processing method, and computer pr...
8031957 Rewritable lossy compression of graphical data
8027547 Method and computer program product for compressing and decompres...
8023737 Method and device for the segmentation of regions and related com...
8023728 Display apparatus and method
8019156 Method and device for segmenting a digital representation of cell...
8000563 Interpolation device
7991225 Methods and systems for dynamic color equalization
7986833 Image processing method and apparatus for color enhancement and c...
7986806 Paper products and physical objects as means to access and contro...
7986831 Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer ...
7970224 Efficient rate allocation for multi-resolution coding of data
7970225 Image processing device, image processing method, image processin...
7965901 Hard imaging methods and devices and optical scanning systems
7965895 Screen compression
7949204 Image scaling interpolation for reduced pictures
7920757 Method for processing a macro block of image data
7907777 Manifold learning for discriminating pixels in multi-channel imag...
7907778 Segmentation-based image labeling
7885457 Image processing device and image processing method which are cap...
7873214 Unsupervised color image segmentation by dynamic color gradient t...
7869659 Image-comparing apparatus, image-comparing method, image-retrievi...
7844110 Method of processing image data and apparatus operable to execute...
7844116 Method for identifying images after cropping
7844117 Method for identifying images under distortion via noise characte...
7840063 Image processing apparatus
7835582 Image encoding apparatus and control method thereof
7831087 Method for visual-based recognition of an object
7822286 Filtering artifacts in images with 3D spatio-temporal fuzzy filte...
7822281 Digital video compression
7813533 Operation-discerning apparatus and apparatus for discerning postu...
7809188 Digital camera and method
7809201 Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image pro...
 
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