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James M. Pontius

Examiner (ID: 12691)

Most Active Art Unit
2488
Art Unit(s)
2485, 2621, 2488, 2483, 2615
Total Applications
720
Issued Applications
570
Pending Applications
40
Abandoned Applications
119

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/376352
IBC chroma block vector search range validation Oct 2, 2023 Issued
Array ( [id] => 20243670 [patent_doc_number] => 12423997 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2025-09-23 [patent_title] => Face authentication system, authentication method of face authentication system, and storage medium [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 18/473077 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2023-09-22 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 14 [patent_figures_cnt] => 16 [patent_no_of_words] => 4716 [patent_no_of_claims] => 12 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 102 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 18473077 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
18/473077
Face authentication system, authentication method of face authentication system, and storage medium Sep 21, 2023 Issued
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18/472808
Vehicle periphery monitoring system, vehicle periphery monitoring method and a non-transitory storage medium Sep 21, 2023 Issued
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18/370680
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING SURROUND VIEW IMAGE OF TRAILER VEHICLE Sep 19, 2023 Abandoned
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18/367732
Surrounding image display apparatus that displays surrounding image when driver intends to make a lane departure and method Sep 12, 2023 Issued
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18/235812
VIEW SUPPORT SYSTEM AT A VEHICLE FOR SUPPORTING A VEHICLE OCCUPANT TO SEE THE SURROUNDINGS OF THE VEHICLE Aug 18, 2023 Pending
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18/992788
ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTER WITH ADAPTIVE FILTER STRENGTH Jun 28, 2023 Pending
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18/329676
Method and apparatus, electronic device, computer-readable storage medium, and computer program product for obtaining color image based on fusing narrow band images Jun 5, 2023 Issued
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18/859081
Method for determining a state of a driver monitoring device and driver monitoring device Apr 18, 2023 Issued
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18/114556
Video Encoding Dynamic Reference Frame Selection Feb 26, 2023 Pending
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18/165206
Methods and apparatuses for hierarchically encoding and decoding a bytestream Feb 5, 2023 Issued
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18/841261
Method for representing surroundings of a vehicle Jan 31, 2023 Issued
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18/726825
Object recognition device and object recognition method Jan 23, 2023 Issued
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18/092352
Electric shaver with imaging capability Jan 1, 2023 Issued
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18/092350
ELECTRIC SHAVER WITH IMAGING CAPABILITY Jan 1, 2023 Pending
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18/092354
Line-powered non-visible spectrum camera Jan 1, 2023 Issued
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18/075748
Image decoding method and apparatus using same Dec 5, 2022 Issued
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18/060468
Vehicle proximity sensor for positioning a vehicle at a dock Nov 29, 2022 Issued
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17/987067
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING A DRIVER OF A VEHICLE WITH VISUALIZATION OF AN AMBIENT ENVIRONMENT Nov 14, 2022 Pending
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18/052633
METHOD FOR REFERENCE PICTURE PROCESSING IN VIDEO CODING Nov 3, 2022 Abandoned
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