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Examiner: An, Shawn S.


Primary examiner statistics: 239 patents; average approval time: 246 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 124 patents; average approval time: 1153 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7526028 Motion estimation method and apparatus for video data compression
7477690 Macroblock level adaptive frame/field coding for digital video co...
7463687 Method and apparatus for performing high quality fast predictive ...
7450639 Advanced noise estimation method and apparatus based on motion co...
7450644 Method and system to improve the transport of compressed video da...
7440501 Method and apparatus for controlling loop filtering or post filte...
7440005 Endoscope
7423665 Vehicle pathway vision system having in-path delineation reticle
7424057 Data format transcoding apparatus and associated method
7420585 Image capture and display device
7421025 Macroblock level adaptive frame/field coding for digital video co...
7417690 Video processing system and video processing method
7411604 Synchronization of a stereoscopic camera
7408986 Increasing motion smoothness using frame interpolation with motio...
7408991 Error detection in low bit-rate video transmission
7408989 Method of video encoding using windows and system thereof
7405746 Image navigation device
7403563 Image decoding method and apparatus, and television receiver util...
7400678 Methods in transmission and searching of video information
7391808 System and method for upgrading processing capabilities of a medi...
7386049 Predictive interpolation of a video signal
7369157 Video monitoring system using daisy chain
7365768 Endoscope apparatus and function adjusting circuit for endoscope
7362806 Object activity modeling method
7359440 Method and system for extracting key frames from video using a tr...
7358987 Endoscope system
7356082 Video/audio signal processing method and video-audio signal proce...
7352811 Data encoding apparatus and method
7352812 Method and apparatus for controlling loop filtering or post filte...
7349473 Method and system for selecting interpolation filter type in vide...
7346107 VSB transmission system for processing supplemental transmission ...
7327792 Digital video system and control method thereof
7327789 Decoding apparatus, decoding method, decoding program, and decodi...
7321385 Surgical lighting control and video system
7310377 Macroblock level adaptive frame/field coding for digital video co...
7310376 Macroblock level adaptive frame/field coding for digital video co...
7310375 Macroblock level adaptive frame/field coding for digital video co...
7310374 Macroblock level adaptive frame/field coding for digital video co...
7308030 Object activity modeling method
7308028 Apparatus and method for generating mosaic images

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
6912251 Frame-accurate seamless splicing of information streams
6895051 Video data encoder and decoder
6795127 Video processing system and video processing method
6628708 Method and system for compressing color video data within a data ...
6625214 Apparatus and method for fade detecting and information encoding
6625215 Methods and apparatus for context-based inter/intra coding mode s...
6614468 Monitoring installation
6606115 Method and apparatus for monitoring the thermal characteristics o...
6597390 Electronic endoscope apparatus
6594315 Formatting of recompressed data in an MPEG decoder
6594310 Partition coding method and device
6590934 Error concealment method
6570926 Active techniques for video transmission and playback
6560280 Video transmission system
6559882 Domestic appliance
6560281 Method and apparatus for generating a condensed version of a vide...
6546053 System and method for decoding signal and method of generating lo...
6529550 Coded stream splicing device and method, and coded stream generat...
6525765 Image processing
6516029 Method and apparatus for adaptive video encoding
6498812 Encoding block-organized data
6498810 Method for motion vector coding of MPEG-4
6496220 Method and arrangement for driving door installations as a functi...
6493389 Method and device for modifying data in an encoded data stream
6480223 Method and device for detecting the position of terminals and/or ...
6480537 Active techniques for video transmission and playback
6452968 Circuitry and apparatus for converting a decoded image with a ...
6445408 Headrest and seat video imaging apparatus
6418165 System and method for performing inverse quantization of a video ...
6404455 Method for tracking entering object and apparatus for tracking an...
6400766 Method and apparatus for digital video compression using three-di...
6400396 Displaced-beam confocal-reflection streak lindae apparatus with ...
6396873 Optical device
6393055 Method of switching video sequences and corresponding switching d...
6393054 System and method for automatically detecting shot boundary and k...
6392687 Method and apparatus for implementing a panoptic camera system
6389071 Method for reducing processing power requirements of a video deco...
6389072 Motion analysis based buffer regulation scheme
6385240 Progressive image signal transmitter, progressive image signal re...
6377628 System for maintaining datastream continuity in the presence of d...
 
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