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Examiner: Philippe, Gims


Primary examiner statistics: 457 patents; average approval time: 458 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 146 patents; average approval time: 1114 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
8116384 Filtering strength determination method, moving picture coding me...
8114172 System and method for 3D space-dimension based image processing
8116376 Complexity scalable video decoding
8111283 Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding video data to implemen...
8111284 System and method for 3D space-dimension based image processing
8111754 Interpolation of video compression frames
RE43147 Abnormality detection and surveillance system
8102416 Medical apparatus
8102422 System, method and computer program product for presenting an opt...
8094729 Method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing s...
RE43043 Picture signal transmitting method and apparatus
8085300 Surveillance camera system, remote-controlled monitoring device, ...
8085848 Image processing apparatus and image processing method
8085856 Filtering strength determination method, moving picture coding me...
RE43021 Picture signal transmitting method and apparatus
8072492 Mobile terminal device
8059206 Motion detection method utilizing 3D Y/C separation
8050324 Method and apparatus for selecting a reference frame for motion e...
8050328 Image decoding method
8045000 System and method for displaying an image stream
8031771 System and method for dynamically determining multimedia transmis...
8031223 Virtual reality camera
8022979 Endoscope system
7489332 System and method for producing a uniformly magnified three-dimen...
7486732 Method and apparatus for distributed load multiplexing of multipl...
7471343 Image processing device, image processing method, and image proce...
7463685 Bidirectionally predicted pictures or video object planes for eff...
7460148 Near real-time dissemination of surveillance video
7460597 Encoding apparatus and method
7453489 Image processing apparatus, image pickup system, image display sy...
7450647 Method and apparatus for inserting digital media advertisements i...
7446796 Electronic endoscope system
7436431 Terminal apparatus and image information server
7433406 Efficient encoding algorithms for delivery of server-centric inte...
7433408 Encoding system and encoding method
7429997 System and method for spherical stereoscopic photographing
7426237 Algorithm for decreasing the number of unnecessary checkpoints in...
7425982 Method and apparatus for resampling line scan data
7426238 Method and an apparatus for recording a decoded picture sequence ...
7424056 Method for motion estimation and bandwidth reduction in memory an...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
6614843 Stream indexing for delivery of interactive program guide
6501799 Dual-prime motion estimation engine
6496538 Method and apparatus for motion estimation for digital video enco...
6490322 Digital opaque projector for easy creation and capture of present...
6483875 Picture signal processing apparatus
6480541 Method and apparatus for providing scalable pre-compressed digita...
6476852 Imaging device for endoscope equipped with both NTSC system and P...
6462776 Security control system
6459731 Technique for video communications using a coding-matched filter ...
6459732 Chroma-key for efficient and low complexity shape representation ...
6456656 Method and apparatus for coding and for decoding a picture sequen...
6456660 Device and method of detecting motion vectors
6452972 Motion detection using field-difference measurements
6445742 Method and apparatus for transmitting and recovering video signal
6441845 Image pickup apparatus enlarging a dynamic range of an image pick...
6442206 Anti-flicker logic for MPEG video decoder with integrated scaling...
6438166 Method and a apparatus for controlling a bit rate of picture data...
6437820 Motion analysis system
6434196 Method and apparatus for encoding video information
6421081 Real time video rear and side viewing device for vehicles void of...
6417881 Image rotating device of stomatocamera
6408026 Deadzone quantization method and apparatus for image compression
6404461 Method for detecting static areas in a sequence of video pictures
6404813 Bidirectionally predicted pictures or video object planes for eff...
6400764 Motion estimation method featuring orthogonal-sum concurrent mult...
6396874 Decoding method and apparatus and recording method and apparatus ...
6392689 System for displaying moving images pseudostereoscopically
6392692 Network communication techniques for security surveillance and sa...
6392705 Multimedia compression system with additive temporal layers
6392690 Three-dimensional image display device
6381279 Method for providing motion-compensated multi-field enhancement o...
6377622 Method and apparatus for coding/decoding scalable shapes by using...
6377295 Observer tracking directional display
6377296 Virtual map system and method for tracking objects
6373893 Motion vector detection device
6343098 Efficient rate control for multi-resolution video encoding
6337880 Indexing for motion video that is compressed using interframe and...
6337879 Video data compression apparatus and method of same
6335760 Image signal reproduction device
6333950 Encoding apparatus and method and computer readable recording med...
 
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