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Michael J. Hess

Examiner (ID: 10735, Phone: (571)270-7933 , Office: P/2481 )

Most Active Art Unit
2481
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2481
Total Applications
525
Issued Applications
211
Pending Applications
106
Abandoned Applications
227

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/441795
Method and apparatus of the quantization matrix computation and representation for video coding Mar 22, 2020 Issued
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17/913074
HIGH LEVEL SYNTAX FOR VIDEO CODING AND DECODING Mar 16, 2020 Pending
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17/437188
LUMA MAPPING- AND CHROMA SCALING-BASED VIDEO OR IMAGE CODING Mar 8, 2020 Abandoned
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16/741166
Combined motion vector and reference index prediction for video coding Jan 12, 2020 Issued
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16/723331
VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING USING AN EPITOME Dec 19, 2019 Pending
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16/720477
CABLE CONNECTION INSPECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD Dec 18, 2019 Abandoned
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16/700732
Apparatus and method for transmitting or receiving broadcast signal Dec 1, 2019 Issued
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16/693652
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZED VIDEO ENCODING Nov 24, 2019 Abandoned
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17/291833
Inter-image component prediction method, and image encoding and decoding method and device using same Nov 21, 2019 Issued
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16/672483
Topographic phase control for overlay measurement Nov 2, 2019 Issued
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16/672480
Topographic Phase Control For Overlay Measurement Nov 2, 2019 Abandoned
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16/672475
Topographic Phase Control For Overlay Measurement Nov 2, 2019 Abandoned
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17/291164
SIMPLIFICATIONS OF CODING MODES BASED ON NEIGHBORING SAMPLES DEPENDENT PARAMETRIC MODELS Oct 31, 2019 Pending
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16/591628
Transportation Information Display Device Oct 2, 2019 Abandoned
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17/278097
METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGES, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING BITSTREAM Sep 18, 2019 Pending
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17/277953
Method and apparatus for video encoding and decoding using bi-prediction Sep 17, 2019 Issued
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17/275948
A METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING OF DIGITAL IMAGE/VIDEO MATERIAL Sep 12, 2019 Abandoned
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17/276254
Video Coding Based on Global Motion Compensated Motion Vectors Sep 11, 2019 Abandoned
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16/560861
Method and system for synthesizing a lane image Sep 3, 2019 Issued
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17/277002
Methods and apparatuses of quantization scaling of transform coefficients in video coding system Sep 1, 2019 Issued
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