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Christopher Braniff

Examiner (ID: 7602, Phone: (571)270-5009 , Office: P/2484 )

Most Active Art Unit
2484
Art Unit(s)
2484
Total Applications
765
Issued Applications
612
Pending Applications
71
Abandoned Applications
100

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/556780
Video or image coding based on mapping of luma samples and scaling of chroma samples Dec 19, 2021 Issued
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17/544024
Signaling profile level exemptions for immersive video Dec 6, 2021 Issued
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17/457848
Transmission device, transmission method, reception device and reception method Dec 5, 2021 Issued
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17/539348
Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method Nov 30, 2021 Issued
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17/523167
Block dimension settings of transform skip mode Nov 9, 2021 Issued
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17/453314
Multimedia distribution system Nov 1, 2021 Issued
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17/516892
Method, apparatus and stream for volumetric video format Nov 1, 2021 Issued
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17/512057
Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device Oct 26, 2021 Issued
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17/503789
Video compression apparatus, electronic apparatus, and video compression program Oct 17, 2021 Issued
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17/502202
Coding mode based on a coding tree structure type Oct 14, 2021 Issued
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18/553793
Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding point cloud geometry data captured by a spinning sensors head Oct 12, 2021 Issued
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17/500362
Methods for encoding decoding of a data flow representing of an omnidirectional video Oct 12, 2021 Issued
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18/031147
HEAT TRACE AREA EXTRACTION APPARATUS, HEAT TRACE AREA EXTRACTION METHOD AND PROGRAM Oct 11, 2021 Abandoned
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18/031141
Heat trace area extraction apparatus, heat trace area extraction method and program Oct 11, 2021 Issued
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17/496035
Method and apparatus for inter-channel prediction and transform for point-cloud attribute coding Oct 6, 2021 Issued
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17/494634
System and method for creating a temporal-based dynamic watermark Oct 4, 2021 Issued
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17/493180
Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device Oct 3, 2021 Issued
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17/486648
V3C video component track alternatives Sep 26, 2021 Issued
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17/476252
Methods and devices for bit-width control for bi-directional optical flow Sep 14, 2021 Issued
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17/473247
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding video using inter-prediction Sep 12, 2021 Issued
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