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Michael J. Hess

Examiner (ID: 17946, Phone: (571)270-7933 , Office: P/2481 )

Most Active Art Unit
2481
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2481
Total Applications
547
Issued Applications
219
Pending Applications
97
Abandoned Applications
238

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/888175
ELECTRONIC DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Sep 17, 2024 Pending
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18/829846
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a video stream with subpictures Sep 9, 2024 Issued
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18/829833
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a video stream with subpictures Sep 9, 2024 Issued
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18/829621
Picture coding method, picture coding apparatus, picture decoding method, and picture decoding apparatus Sep 9, 2024 Issued
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18/830324
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a video stream with subpictures Sep 9, 2024 Issued
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18/829691
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a video stream with subpictures Sep 9, 2024 Issued
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18/829738
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a video stream with subpictures Sep 9, 2024 Issued
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18/825654
MODIFYING DIGITAL IMAGES VIA PERSPECTIVE-AWARE TEXT EDITING Sep 4, 2024 Pending
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18/817821
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING USING ADAPTIVE CHROMA SPACE CONVERSION Aug 27, 2024 Pending
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18/812221
INTER-IMAGE COMPONENT PREDICTION METHOD, AND IMAGE ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE USING SAME Aug 21, 2024 Pending
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18/806911
THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING DEVICE Aug 15, 2024 Pending
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18/786915
APS signaling-based video or image coding Jul 28, 2024 Issued
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18/782956
CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ENCODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Jul 23, 2024 Pending
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18/781623
IMAGE CODING METHOD AND DEVICE ON BASIS OF WIDE-ANGLE INTRA PREDICTION AND TRANSFORM Jul 22, 2024 Pending
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18/776375
ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Jul 17, 2024 Pending
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18/747180
Encoder, decoder and corresponding methods using interpolation filtering Jun 17, 2024 Issued
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18/678344
THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING METHOD AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING METHOD May 29, 2024 Abandoned
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18/669137
LOSSLESS IMAGE COMPRESSION USING BLOCK BASED PREDICTION AND OPTIMIZED CONTEXT ADAPTIVE ENTROPY CODING May 19, 2024 Pending
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18/662182
VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING INTRA-PREDICTION FOR AN ENCODING/DECODING TARGET BLOCK May 12, 2024 Pending
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18/660356
Array based residual coding on non-dyadic blocks May 9, 2024 Issued
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