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Examiner: Mariam, Daniel G.


Primary examiner statistics: 324 patents; average approval time: 324 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 253 patents; average approval time: 1084 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7505637 Method, apparatus, computer program, computer system, and compute...
7505611 Apparatus and method of input and finger print recognition on a h...
7463794 Optical imaging pen having an orthogonal accelerometer
7460713 System for recording and retrieving note taking on notebook form
7457432 Specified object detection apparatus
7454066 Extracting method of pattern contour, image processing method, se...
7454053 System and method for automatically recovering video tools in a v...
7454049 System and method for intelligent currency validation
7450739 Image processing apparatus and method, red-eye detection method, ...
7450760 System and method for capturing and processing business data
7444018 Method and apparatus for shot detection
7440622 System and method for arranging concept clusters in thematic neig...
7440620 Infrared safety systems and methods
7440603 Method and system for multi-energy tomosynthesis
7440616 System and method for recognition of a hand-drawn chart in ink in...
7440607 Outlier substrate inspection
7437023 Methods, systems and computer program products for data gathering...
7436992 Methods and apparatus for testing a component
7433494 Moving body detecting apparatus
7433532 Max entropy optimized retinal camera
7433520 Nosologic system of diagnosis
7430338 Method and device for processing and for searching for an object ...
7430323 Method and apparatus for 4-dimensional image warping
7428314 Monitoring an environment
7428319 Identification of a person based on ultra-sound scan analyses of ...
7428327 Method and apparatus for utilizing representational images in com...
7428341 Method and apparatus for lossless data transformation with prepro...
7424155 Two-dimensional code recognition processing method, two-dimension...
7424150 Systems and methods for media summarization
7421108 Method and apparatus for detecting a workpiece, and method and ap...
7421123 Information processing apparatus, an information processing metho...
7418137 System and method for accepting disparate types of user input
7415162 Method and apparatus for lossless data transformation with prepro...
7412094 System and method for editing a hand-drawn table in ink input
7412080 Adaptive motion estimation
7409107 Input device, information device, and control information generat...
7409088 System and method for connectivity-based recognition of a hand-dr...
7406192 Method for determining the change in position of an item of lugga...
7400771 System and method for connected container recognition of a hand-d...
7400769 Position-code bearing notepad employing activation icons

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
6748112 Method and apparatus for finding shape deformations in objects ha...
6658145 Fast high-accuracy multi-dimensional pattern inspection
6563949 Character string extraction apparatus and pattern extraction appa...
6563950 Labeled bunch graphs for image analysis
6556713 Image processing apparatus and method and storage medium
6546134 System for assessment of fine motor control in humans
6542640 Data compressing apparatus, reconstructing apparatus, and its met...
6535632 Image processing in HSI color space using adaptive noise filterin...
6535646 Discrete cosine transform method and apparatus
6535639 Automatic video summarization using a measure of shot importance ...
6532303 Line direction deciding device, image inclination detecting devic...
6532305 Machine learning method
6529619 Inspection data analyzing system
6510244 Method and system for acquiring a three-dimensional shape descrip...
6507678 Apparatus and method for retrieving character string based on ...
6501856 Scheme for extraction and recognition of telop characters from vi...
6501857 Method and system for detecting and classifying objects in an ima...
6501854 Information processing apparatus, an information processing metho...
6490375 Methods for finding peaks in a characteristic surface of an image
6490370 System and method for describing multimedia content
6480627 Image classification using evolved parameters
6477275 Systems and methods for locating a pattern in an image
6473525 Method for detecting an image edge within a dithered image
6466694 Document image processing device and method thereof
6466695 Procedure for automatic analysis of images and image sequences ba...
6459810 Method and apparatus for forming variant search strings
6459824 Method of retrieving moving pictures using joint points based on ...
6459821 Simultaneous registration of multiple image fragments
6459809 Searching and filtering content streams using contour transformat...
6456740 System and method for identifying form type in a handwriting reco...
6445820 Method for conducting analysis of handwriting
6430314 Method and apparatus for entering data strings including hangul (...
6418245 Dynamic range expansion method for image sensed by solid-state im...
6408107 Rapid convolution based large deformation image matching via land...
6404925 Methods and apparatuses for segmenting an audio-visual recording ...
6400846 Method for ordering image spaces to search for object surfaces
6396951 Document-based query data for information retrieval
6396954 Apparatus and method for recognition and apparatus and method for...
6393159 Multiscale characterization and analysis of shapes
6393138 Method of creating registration signature data for computerized s...
 
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