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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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17/971893
Camera system using stabilizing gimbal Oct 23, 2022 Issued
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17/954233
Retina imaging apparatus Sep 26, 2022 Issued
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18/874568
METHOD AND MODULE FOR CONTROLLING CODE RATE OF ENCODER, AND CHIP, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Aug 29, 2022 Pending
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17/892246
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SCALING VIDEO STREAMS Aug 21, 2022 Abandoned
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17/857558
Reduced complexity transforms for high bitdepth video coding Jul 4, 2022 Issued
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17/850608
SUBPICTURE PARTITIONING AND SCALING WINDOW INFORMATION Jun 26, 2022 Abandoned
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18/875595
NEURAL NETWORK CODEC WITH HYBRID ENTROPY MODEL AND FLEXIBLE QUANTIZATION Jun 20, 2022 Pending
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17/836309
Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding Jun 8, 2022 Issued
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18/855102
System and method for operating a vehicle access point Apr 7, 2022 Issued
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17/706912
Surgery 3D visualization apparatus Mar 28, 2022 Issued
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17/677935
Methods and apparatus on prediction refinement with optical flow Feb 21, 2022 Issued
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18/709083
Image display system, image display method, and image display device Nov 21, 2021 Issued
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17/518762
Method and apparatus with estimation of distance between pedestrian and camera Nov 3, 2021 Issued
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17/204706
Image scaling Mar 16, 2021 Issued
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17/194300
Time-multiplexed backlight and multiview display using same Mar 6, 2021 Issued
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17/249557
Turn direction guidance of an endoscopic device Mar 4, 2021 Issued
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17/192881
PHOTOGRAPHING DEVICE, GIMBLE CAMERA, AND UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE Mar 3, 2021 Abandoned
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17/188977
Flexible quantization Feb 28, 2021 Issued
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17/185665
Map system, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for autonomously navigating vehicle Feb 24, 2021 Issued
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17/174815
Display system Feb 11, 2021 Issued
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