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Patent No. 6612440

Banana Protective Device

A banana protective device for storing and transporting a banana carefully.

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Examiner: Couso, Jose L


Primary examiner statistics: 209 patents; average approval time: 211 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 0 patents; average approval time: N/A

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8014619 Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image
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7986819 Electronic apparatus and video display method
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7983495 Image processing device and method
7978924 Systems and methods for optimizing bit utilization in data encodi...
7974470 Method and apparatus for processing an image
7970167 Deriving identifying data from video and audio
7970166 Steganographic encoding methods and apparatus
7965888 Digital video camera non-integer-ratio bayer domain scaler
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7957597 Foreground/background segmentation in digital images
7957586 Method for converting color space of image signal
7957605 Selective local transient improvement and peaking for video sharp...
7957553 Digital watermarking apparatus and methods
7953270 Methods and arrangements employing digital content items
7953275 Image shader for digital image modification
7953276 Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image pro...
7949147 Watermarking compressed data
7945091 Image processor correcting color misregistration, image processin...
7940990 Image signal processing apparatus and image signal processing met...
7936930 Method for reducing the amount of data to be processed in a visua...
7929793 Registration and compression of dynamic images
7929755 Planar map to process a raster image
7929794 Method and apparatus for image data compression
7925084 Merge and removal in a planar map of an image
7925100 Tiled packaging of vector image data
7925088 System, method and apparatus for automatic segmentation and analy...
7920750 Method and apparatus for coding positions of coefficients
7920747 Pre-distribution image scaling for screen size
7916938 Computer-implemented gamut mapping
7912285 Foreground/background segmentation in digital images with differe...
7912300 Image processing apparatus and control method therefor

Patents as Assistant Examiner

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