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Michael J. Felton

Examiner (ID: 9408, Phone: (571)272-4805 , Office: P/1747 )

Most Active Art Unit
1747
Art Unit(s)
1747, 1731, 1791
Total Applications
756
Issued Applications
403
Pending Applications
86
Abandoned Applications
283

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/555895
Coefficient context modeling in video coding Aug 28, 2019 Issued
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17/274383
Optical-RF hybrid wireless communication system and control method Aug 26, 2019 Issued
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16/551124
Electronic apparatus for identifying content based on an object included in the content and control method thereof Aug 25, 2019 Issued
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16/551124
Electronic apparatus for identifying content based on an object included in the content and control method thereof Aug 25, 2019 Issued
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16/551124
Electronic apparatus for identifying content based on an object included in the content and control method thereof Aug 25, 2019 Issued
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16/551124
Electronic apparatus for identifying content based on an object included in the content and control method thereof Aug 25, 2019 Issued
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17/270239
Image correction of a surgical endoscope video stream Aug 22, 2019 Issued
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17/270316
Distortion correction of endoscopic images in computer-assisted tele-operated surgery Aug 14, 2019 Issued
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17/266164
Methods for identifying charging device, mobile robots and systems for identifying charging device Aug 12, 2019 Issued
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16/538225
Two way and four way cascading optical exchanges provide traffic control for variety of signals with emphasis to WiFi Aug 11, 2019 Issued
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17/268831
Optical transmission system and wavelength allocation method Aug 7, 2019 Issued
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17/267369
Reducing banding artifacts in HDR imaging via adaptive SDR-to-HDR reshaping functions Aug 6, 2019 Issued
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16/534660
System and method for eliminating processing window artifacts by utilizing processing window overlap in two and three dimensional hierarchical and recursive hierarchical image segmentation processing Aug 6, 2019 Issued
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16/531299
Image mask generation using a deep neural network Aug 4, 2019 Issued
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17/632589
Transmission apparatus and transmission method Aug 4, 2019 Issued
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17/631417
Communication apparatus and communication method Aug 1, 2019 Issued
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17/287991
Image processing device and image processing method to generate image for object recognition Aug 1, 2019 Issued
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16/527563
Method of processing images using high dynamic range while preserving frame rate and image processing device performing the same Jul 30, 2019 Issued
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16/521808
Image processing method, image processing device and computer storage medium Jul 24, 2019 Issued
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16/517214
Signal transmitting method, signal receiving method, and related device and system Jul 18, 2019 Issued
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