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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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11/038477
Method, medium, and apparatus for 3-dimensional encoding and/or decoding of video Jan 20, 2005 Issued
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11/040658
Spatio-temporal graph-segmentation encoding for multiple video streams Jan 20, 2005 Issued
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11/041141
Prediction intra-mode selection in an encoder Jan 20, 2005 Issued
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10/905769
Method for locating partitions of a video image Jan 19, 2005 Issued
Array ( [id] => 7038592 [patent_doc_number] => 20050158026 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2005-07-21 [patent_title] => 'Method and apparatus for reproducing scalable video streams' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 11/037048 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2005-01-19 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 10 [patent_figures_cnt] => 10 [patent_no_of_words] => 5436 [patent_no_of_claims] => 17 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 5 [patent_words_short_claim] => 0 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] => publications/A1/0158/20050158026.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 11037048 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
11/037048
Method and apparatus for reproducing scalable video streams Jan 18, 2005 Abandoned
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11/038350
Visual aid display apparatus Jan 18, 2005 Issued
Array ( [id] => 5543774 [patent_doc_number] => 20090153651 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2009-06-18 [patent_title] => 'SUSPENDED PARTICLE DEVICE' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 10/596872 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2005-01-05 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 18 [patent_figures_cnt] => 18 [patent_no_of_words] => 5643 [patent_no_of_claims] => 29 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 1 [patent_words_short_claim] => 0 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] => publications/A1/0153/20090153651.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 10596872 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
10/596872
SUSPENDED PARTICLE DEVICE Jan 4, 2005 Abandoned
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11/018762
Video codecs, data processing systems and methods for the same Dec 21, 2004 Issued
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11/018371
On-vehicle picture data transmission system, on-vehicle picture data receiving apparatus, and on-vehicle picture data transmitting apparatus Dec 21, 2004 Abandoned
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11/015555
Video decoding system supporting multiple standards Dec 16, 2004 Issued
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10/596723
Microscope system and method for operating a microscope system Dec 13, 2004 Issued
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11/003992
Buffer management in variable bit-rate compression systems Dec 2, 2004 Abandoned
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11/000830
Interactive theatrical performance Nov 30, 2004 Issued
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10/595978
Method and arrangement in tail threading of a web forming machine Nov 18, 2004 Issued
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10/989669
Apparatus and method for converting resolution of compressed video Nov 16, 2004 Issued
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10/578065
Method and system for extracting/storing specific program from mpeg multpile program tranport stream Nov 2, 2004 Abandoned
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10/578072
Video encoding method and device Oct 31, 2004 Abandoned
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10/977773
Systems and methods with error resilience in enhancement layer bitstream of scalable video coding Oct 28, 2004 Issued
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10/978277
Systems and methods with error resilience in enhancement layer bitstream of scalable video coding Oct 28, 2004 Issued
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10/977417
Systems and methods with error resilience in enhancement layer bitstream of scalable video coding Oct 28, 2004 Issued
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