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Christopher Upton

Examiner (ID: 4164, Phone: (571)272-1169 , Office: P/1778 )

Most Active Art Unit
1778
Art Unit(s)
1797, 1778, 1724, 1306, 1308, 1776
Total Applications
3146
Issued Applications
2580
Pending Applications
123
Abandoned Applications
451

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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11/414293
External-device control apparatus and system Apr 30, 2006 Issued
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11/415258
Robust and efficient compression/decompression providing for adjustable division of computational complexity between encoding/compression and decoding/decompression Apr 29, 2006 Issued
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11/380718
Methods and systems for block-based residual upsampling Apr 27, 2006 Issued
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11/380726
Methods and systems for efficient prediction-mode selection Apr 27, 2006 Issued
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11/414600
System and method for sampling based elimination of duplicate data Apr 27, 2006 Issued
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11/414668
System and method for encoding a single video stream at a plurality of encoding rates Apr 27, 2006 Issued
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11/412668
Decoder system for decoding multi-standard encoded video Apr 26, 2006 Issued
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11/412669
Reconstruction and overlap transform system and method supporting VC-1 decoding Apr 26, 2006 Issued
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11/412269
Systems, methods, and apparatus for real-time encoding Apr 26, 2006 Issued
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11/412617
System and method for overlap transforming and deblocking Apr 26, 2006 Issued
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11/410955
Video coding method and apparatus supporting fast fine granular scalability Apr 25, 2006 Abandoned
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11/411032
Dynamic image encoding device and method Apr 25, 2006 Issued
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11/400949
Method of operating a video decoding system Apr 4, 2006 Issued
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11/276959
Distributed functionality in a wireless communications network Mar 17, 2006 Issued
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11/373001
Efficient employment of digital upsampling using IFFT in OFDM systems for simpler analog filtering Mar 8, 2006 Issued
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11/370948
Method and apparatus for scalable motion vector coding Mar 8, 2006 Issued
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11/360879
Robotic CCD microscope for enhanced crystal recognition Feb 21, 2006 Issued
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11/344512
Managed degradation of a video stream Jan 30, 2006 Issued
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11/326152
System and method of decoding dual video signals Jan 4, 2006 Issued
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11/327077
Method and system for scalable representation, storage, transmission and reconstruction of media streams Jan 4, 2006 Issued
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