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Examiner: Boudreau, Leo H.


Primary examiner statistics: 4414 patents; average approval time: 915 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 1 patents; average approval time: 1450 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7062103 Method and apparatus for specifying quantization based upon the h...
7058218 Method of and apparatus for compressing and uncompressing image d...
6983074 Data compression system and technique
6980671 Rapid computer modeling of faces for animation
6973217 Method and apparatus for sending additional sideband information ...
6965696 Image processing device for image region discrimination
6959098 Method and system for determining image transformation
6959119 Method of evaluating cosmetic products on a consumer with future ...
6952484 Method and apparatus for mark detection
6937744 System and process for bootstrap initialization of nonparametric ...
6922492 Video deblocking method and apparatus
6920234 Method and device for monitoring the interior and surrounding are...
6909811 Image processing apparatus and method and storage medium storing ...
6904178 Method and apparatus for eliminating flicker by quantizing values...
6904162 Film phantom for three-dimensional dosimetry
6904161 Workflow configuration and execution in medical imaging
6898323 Memory usage scheme for performing wavelet processing
6898302 Systems, methods and computer program products for the display an...
6898308 Method of color quantization in color images
6898298 Installing posture parameter auto extracting method of imaging de...
6898331 Image fusion system and method
6898327 Anti-flicker system for multi-plane graphics
6891973 Lossy/lossless region-of-interest image coding
6891958 Asymmetric spread-spectrum watermarking systems and methods of us...
6888958 Method and apparatus for inspecting patterns
6885767 Silhouetting apparatus and method
6882755 Image transmission for low bandwidth with region of interest
6882740 System and method for determining a seed vigor index from germina...
6882739 Method and apparatus for rapid grain size analysis of polycrystal...
6879726 Image processing method, apparatus and storage medium
6879723 Method and apparatus for encoding frames of image data at a varyi...
6879722 Method and apparatus for statistical text filtering
6879719 Method for measurement of full-two dimensional submicron shapes
6876758 Methods and systems for improving a user's visual perception over...
6876779 Method and apparatus of reconstructing audio/video/image data fro...
6873711 Image processing device, image processing method, and storage med...
6870944 Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage ...
6870966 Sensing device
6868173 Method for confirming authenticity of sheet
6868186 Visual lossless image compression

Patents as Assistant Examiner

Patent No. Patent Title:
3962681 Page width optical character processing method and system

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