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Karl D. Frech

Examiner (ID: 16857, Phone: (571)272-2390 , Office: P/2887 )

Most Active Art Unit
2887
Art Unit(s)
2887, 2876, 2505, 2514
Total Applications
2278
Issued Applications
1870
Pending Applications
125
Abandoned Applications
285

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/226354
Method and apparatus of pattern-based motion vector derivation for video coding Apr 8, 2021 Issued
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17/225814
Reducing overhead for multiple-hypothesis temporal prediction Apr 7, 2021 Issued
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17/224812
Joint termination of bidirectional data blocks for parallel coding Apr 6, 2021 Issued
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17/222779
Superpixel generation and use Apr 4, 2021 Issued
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17/198813
Learned B-frame coding using P-frame coding system Mar 10, 2021 Issued
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17/198045
Video encoding method and video encoding device Mar 9, 2021 Issued
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17/802728
IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND IMAGING METHOD Mar 1, 2021 Pending
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17/177811
Hyperspectral and fluorescence imaging and topology laser mapping with minimal area monolithic image sensor Feb 16, 2021 Issued
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17/173484
Jigs for use in medical imaging and methods for using thereof Feb 10, 2021 Issued
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17/158986
Photoelectric conversion device, photoelectric conversion system, and moving body Jan 25, 2021 Issued
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17/151699
Systems and methods for reducing blocking artifacts Jan 18, 2021 Issued
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17/148105
Providing files of variable sizes based on device and network conditions Jan 12, 2021 Issued
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18/270557
INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Jan 5, 2021 Abandoned
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17/139372
Method and apparatus for providing cloud-based video encoding Dec 30, 2020 Issued
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17/127544
Offloading video coding processes to hardware for better density-quality tradeoffs Dec 17, 2020 Issued
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17/118342
Psychovisually optimized dithering for image and video encoding Dec 9, 2020 Issued
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17/115165
Sub-pictures for pixel rate balancing on multicore platforms Dec 7, 2020 Issued
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17/111250
Video bitstream coding Dec 2, 2020 Issued
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17/102743
Video compression technique using a machine learning system Nov 23, 2020 Issued
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17/101751
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING ENCODER OUTPUT Nov 22, 2020 Abandoned
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