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Christopher Braniff

Examiner (ID: 6249, Phone: (571)270-5009 , Office: P/2484 )

Most Active Art Unit
2484
Art Unit(s)
2484
Total Applications
771
Issued Applications
616
Pending Applications
73
Abandoned Applications
100

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/134551
VIDEO DECODING METHOD FOR DECODING BITSTREAM TO GENERATE PROJECTION-BASED FRAME WITH GUARD BAND TYPE SPECIFIED BY SYNTAX ELEMENT SIGNALING Dec 27, 2020 Abandoned
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17/135039
Vehicle and roof construction including a display device for use therein Dec 27, 2020 Issued
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17/129332
High-level syntax designs for point cloud coding Dec 20, 2020 Issued
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17/129315
High-level syntax designs for point cloud coding Dec 20, 2020 Issued
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17/125113
Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method Dec 16, 2020 Issued
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17/121803
Augmented reality displays with active alignment and corresponding methods Dec 14, 2020 Issued
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17/120846
Method and system for lossless coding mode in video coding Dec 13, 2020 Issued
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17/120716
Method and apparatus for CABAC-based entropy coding Dec 13, 2020 Issued
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17/113840
Vehicle ranging and positioning Dec 6, 2020 Issued
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17/105569
Selective switch for parallel processing Nov 25, 2020 Issued
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17/791421
Information processor, information processing method, and program Nov 23, 2020 Issued
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16/952255
Methods and apparatuses for transform skip mode information signaling Nov 18, 2020 Issued
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17/095541
Transmission apparatus, transmission method, reception apparatus, and reception method Nov 10, 2020 Issued
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17/088073
Method and apparatus for video coding Nov 2, 2020 Issued
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17/077587
Parametric graph-based separable transforms for video coding Oct 21, 2020 Issued
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17/077450
Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method Oct 21, 2020 Issued
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17/072980
Signaling of coding tools for encoding a video component as monochrome video Oct 15, 2020 Issued
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17/069337
Apparatus and method for checking tyres Oct 12, 2020 Issued
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17/066405
Rice parameter derivation for transform-skip mode used in lossless/lossy video coding Oct 7, 2020 Issued
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17/029507
Method for processing immersive video and method for producing immersive video Sep 22, 2020 Issued
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