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Eret C. Mcnichols

Examiner (ID: 17038, Phone: (571)270-7363 , Office: P/3632 )

Most Active Art Unit
3632
Art Unit(s)
3632
Total Applications
1010
Issued Applications
711
Pending Applications
86
Abandoned Applications
238

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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09/844890
Apparatus, and associated method, for selecting an encoding rate by which to encode video frames of a video sequence Apr 26, 2001 Issued
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09/844112
Signal transmission method and signal transmission apparatus Apr 26, 2001 Issued
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09/842810
Method and apparatus for video coding Apr 26, 2001 Issued
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09/843380
Video surveillance system Apr 24, 2001 Issued
Array ( [id] => 7626256 [patent_doc_number] => 06768508 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B1 [patent_issue_date] => 2004-07-27 [patent_title] => 'Video node for frame synchronized multi-node video camera array' [patent_app_type] => B1 [patent_app_number] => 09/840700 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2001-04-23 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 2 [patent_figures_cnt] => 2 [patent_no_of_words] => 1919 [patent_no_of_claims] => 7 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 12 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/06/768/06768508.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 09840700 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
09/840700
Video node for frame synchronized multi-node video camera array Apr 22, 2001 Issued
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09/835650
Estimating total average distortion in a video with variable frameskip Apr 15, 2001 Issued
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09/832610
Decoding system and method for proper interpolation for motion compensation Apr 10, 2001 Issued
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09/829790
Determining the degree of resemblance between a data sample and interpolations of other data samples Apr 9, 2001 Issued
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09/829342
Video encoding and decoding method Apr 8, 2001 Issued
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09/825690
Device for video transmission between a camera and a control room Apr 3, 2001 Issued
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09/806390
Method and apparatus for detecting scene changes and adjusting picture coding type in a high definition television encoder Mar 28, 2001 Issued
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09/821140
Scalable MPEG-2 video decoder with selective motion compensation Mar 28, 2001 Issued
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09/819147
Device and method for compression of a video stream Mar 26, 2001 Issued
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09/819940
Coprocessor circuit architecture, for instance for digital encoding applications Mar 26, 2001 Issued
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09/815287
Image processing method and image processing apparatus Mar 22, 2001 Issued
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09/815057
Method and apparatus for image signal encoding Mar 22, 2001 Issued
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09/812330
Regularized dequantizer for DCT-based transform coding Mar 18, 2001 Issued
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09/812784
Moving picture coding, coded-moving picture bitstream conversion and coded-moving picture bitstream multiplexing Mar 14, 2001 Issued
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09/808326
Digital video recording system Mar 13, 2001 Issued
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10/009119
Method and apparatus for generating compact transcoding hints metadata Mar 12, 2001 Issued
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