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Benjamin S Fields

Examiner (ID: 4372, Phone: (571)272-9734 , Office: P/3623 )

Most Active Art Unit
3684
Art Unit(s)
3624, 3692, 3623, 3684
Total Applications
372
Issued Applications
200
Pending Applications
0
Abandoned Applications
172

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/885292
Information processing apparatus, lighting device, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program May 27, 2020 Issued
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15/931770
Image signal processor resource management May 13, 2020 Issued
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16/871818
System and method of estimating ambient light May 10, 2020 Issued
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17/610087
Camera module and camera apparatus including same May 7, 2020 Issued
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16/864811
Solid state imaging device, method of manufacturing solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus Apr 30, 2020 Issued
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16/844231
Imaging unit, imaging apparatus, and computer readable medium storing thereon an imaging control program Apr 8, 2020 Issued
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16/799842
Image capturing device and distance measuring device Feb 24, 2020 Issued
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16/795446
Imaging apparatus and imaging method, camera module, and electronic apparatus capable of detecting a failure in a structure in which substrates are stacked Feb 18, 2020 Issued
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16/785661
Image communication system, image capturing device, communication terminal, and mode switching method Feb 9, 2020 Issued
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16/747383
Intelligent object tracking using object-identifying code Jan 19, 2020 Issued
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16/742398
Systems and methods for automatic detection and correction of luminance variations in images Jan 13, 2020 Issued
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17/423810
IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS Jan 7, 2020 Pending
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16/735599
Methods and apparatus for use with multiple optical chains Jan 5, 2020 Issued
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16/729773
Image processing apparatus and image processing method Dec 29, 2019 Issued
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16/727571
Image sensor for improving linearity of analog-to-digital converter and image processing system including the same Dec 25, 2019 Issued
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17/420736
Flicker measuring device, flicker measuring method, and flicker measuring program Dec 18, 2019 Issued
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16/703046
Imaging device including an imaging cell having variable sensitivity Dec 3, 2019 Issued
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16/683100
Comparator for low-banding noise and CMOS image sensor including the same Nov 12, 2019 Issued
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16/666221
Apparatus and methods for the storage of overlapping regions of imaging data for the generation of optimized stitched images Oct 27, 2019 Issued
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16/659641
Camera module and calibration method thereof Oct 21, 2019 Issued
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