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Gary E Elkins

Examiner (ID: 15846, Phone: (571)272-4537 , Office: P/3782 )

Most Active Art Unit
2401
Art Unit(s)
2401, 3207, 3727, 3782
Total Applications
4105
Issued Applications
3282
Pending Applications
106
Abandoned Applications
716

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/113377
System and method for hybrid visual searches and augmented reality Dec 6, 2020 Issued
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17/110718
Data processing method and apparatus for capturing and analyzing images of sporting events Dec 2, 2020 Issued
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17/107050
System, computing device, and method for document detection and deposit processing Nov 29, 2020 Issued
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16/953497
Image processing apparatus having functions including scan function, control method thereof, and storage medium storing program for executing control method Nov 19, 2020 Issued
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16/951872
Systems and methods for selective replacement of objects in images Nov 17, 2020 Issued
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17/777487
Method of determining and displaying an area of interest of a digital microscope tissue image, input/output system for navigating a patient-specific image record, and work place comprising such input/output system Nov 12, 2020 Issued
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17/096723
Sheet conveyance device and program for sheet conveyance device Nov 11, 2020 Issued
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17/090577
Method and device for steganographic processing and compression of image data Nov 4, 2020 Issued
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17/087528
Methods and apparatus for motion estimation based on region discontinuity Nov 1, 2020 Issued
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17/767746
Information processing system, information processing method, and program Oct 29, 2020 Issued
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17/085941
Apparatus and method for monitoring user based on multi-view face image Oct 29, 2020 Issued
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17/080506
Temperature monitoring with a thermal camera Oct 25, 2020 Issued
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17/079998
Apparatus and method of acquiring image by employing color separation lens array Oct 25, 2020 Issued
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17/077375
Image processing system and method for generating image content Oct 21, 2020 Issued
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17/072404
Image labeling system of a hand in an image Oct 15, 2020 Issued
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18/248148
CYCLING PERFORMING IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON USER FAMILIARITY Oct 12, 2020 Pending
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17/068110
GPU accelerated image segmentation Oct 11, 2020 Issued
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17/060164
Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and storage medium that determine a type of moving image, extract and sort frames, and display an extracted frame Sep 30, 2020 Issued
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17/061522
Electronic device, method and non-transitory storage medium for optical character recognition Sep 30, 2020 Issued
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17/032399
Method for detecting grasping position of robot in grasping object Sep 24, 2020 Issued
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