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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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12/489758
IMAGE GENERATING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS Jun 22, 2009 Abandoned
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12/456799
Video coding method with non-compressed mode and device implementing the method Jun 22, 2009 Abandoned
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12/489749
IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS Jun 22, 2009 Abandoned
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12/489017
Providing Television Broadcasts over a Managed Network and Interactive Content over an Unmanaged Network to a Client Device Jun 21, 2009 Abandoned
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12/488776
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE Jun 21, 2009 Abandoned
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12/489200
AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, COMMUNICATION OR DATA NETWORK FOR TRANSCODING AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO DATA, AND METHOD FOR DECODING AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO DATA Jun 21, 2009 Abandoned
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12/488354
Method and Apparatus for Improved Broadcast Bandwidth Efficiency During Transmission of a Static Code Page of an Advertisement Jun 18, 2009 Abandoned
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12/487870
Digital Television System and Receiver and Associated Method for Providing Information of Point of Interest Jun 18, 2009 Abandoned
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12/481000
IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE OUTPUTTING METHOD, AND IMAGE DECODING AND OUTPUTTING APPARATUSES Jun 8, 2009 Abandoned
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12/479978
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OUTPUTTING AND DISPLAYING IMAGE DATA Jun 7, 2009 Abandoned
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12/429790
SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PRESENTING MULTI-DEVICE VIDEO BASED ON MPEG-4 SINGLE MEDIA Apr 23, 2009 Abandoned
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12/407588
Combined motion vector and reference index prediction for video coding Mar 18, 2009 Issued
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12/406617
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE NOISE REDUCTION FILTERING Mar 17, 2009 Abandoned
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12/406781
MULTI CHANNEL ENCODER, DEMODULATOR, MODULATOR AND DIGITAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR DIGITAL VIDEO INSERTION IN NETWORK EDGE APPLICATIONS Mar 17, 2009 Abandoned
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12/405447
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZED VIDEO CODING Mar 16, 2009 Abandoned
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12/405629
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE Mar 16, 2009 Abandoned
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12/352873
METHOD AND DEVICE TO PROCESS A RECEIVED ANALOG SIGNAL AND TO EXTRACT DIGITAL DATA THEREFROM ACCORDING TO A PLURALITY OF PROTOCOLS Jan 12, 2009 Abandoned
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12/274323
Scalable predictive coding method and apparatus Nov 18, 2008 Issued
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12/737661
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING DARK NOISE ARTIFACTS Aug 7, 2008 Abandoned
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12/182631
DECODING APPARATUS FOR ENCODED VIDEO SIGNALS Jul 29, 2008 Abandoned
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