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Michael J. Hess

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

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

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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13/652311
ADVANCED CODING TECHNIQUES Oct 14, 2012 Abandoned
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13/573868
Characterization of a physical object based on its surface roughness Oct 9, 2012 Issued
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13/573868
Characterization of a physical object based on its surface roughness Oct 9, 2012 Issued
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13/614825
INFORMATION ACQUIRING DEVICE AND OBJECT DETECTING DEVICE Sep 12, 2012 Abandoned
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13/539753
Adaptive stochastic entropy coding Jul 1, 2012 Issued
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13/539365
Systems and Methods for Decoding Video Encoded Using Predictions that Reference Higher Rate Video Sequences Jun 29, 2012 Abandoned
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13/539356
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCODING VIDEO USING HIGHER RATE VIDEO SEQUENCES Jun 29, 2012 Abandoned
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13/539337
Systems and methods for compressing geotagged video Jun 29, 2012 Issued
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13/529312
IMAGE SPLICING METHOD AND APPARATUS Jun 20, 2012 Abandoned
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14/004318
Bitdepth and Color Scalable Video Coding Mar 7, 2012 Abandoned
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13/413947
METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ENCODING AND DECODING VIDEO USING ADAPTIVE INTERPOLATION FILTER LENGTH Mar 6, 2012 Abandoned
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13/412926
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE TRANSMITTING PROGRAM, IMAGE TRANSMITTING METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD Mar 5, 2012 Abandoned
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13/413514
Harmonized scan order for coding transform coefficients in video coding Mar 5, 2012 Issued
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13/413497
CODING OF TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS FOR VIDEO CODING Mar 5, 2012 Abandoned
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13/413598
Method for rate-distortion optimized transform and quantization through a closed-form operation Mar 5, 2012 Issued
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13/413475
Signaling syntax elements for transform coefficients for sub-sets of a leaf-level coding unit Mar 5, 2012 Issued
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13/413526
Inverse scan order for significance map coding of transform coefficients in video coding Mar 5, 2012 Issued
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13/412387
DECODED PICTURE BUFFER MANAGEMENT Mar 4, 2012 Abandoned
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13/406020
VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD Feb 26, 2012 Abandoned
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13/406212
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY SIMULATING A REMOTE AUDIOVISUAL ENVIRONMENT Feb 26, 2012 Abandoned
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