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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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18/527988
Initialization Of Palette For Wavefront Parallel Processing Dec 3, 2023 Pending
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18/526632
ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTERING Nov 30, 2023 Pending
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18/513020
Palette Mode For Local Dual Tree Nov 16, 2023 Pending
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18/506313
JOINT USE OF ADAPTIVE COLOUR TRANSFORM AND DIFFERENTIAL CODING OF VIDEO Nov 9, 2023 Pending
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18/504455
Block Vector Difference (BVD) Indication with Reduced Overhead Nov 7, 2023 Pending
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18/503754
SIZE RESTRICTION BASED ON COLOR FORMAT Nov 6, 2023 Pending
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18/502724
Using Neighboring Samples In Cross-Component Video Coding Nov 5, 2023 Pending
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18/502646
PREDICTION PRECISION IMPROVEMENTS IN VIDEO CODING Nov 5, 2023 Pending
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18/497726
Warp mode for intra prediction Oct 29, 2023 Issued
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18/492944
CLIPPING IN REFERENCE PICTURE RESAMPLING Oct 23, 2023 Pending
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18/493359
Encoding method and apparatus therefor, and decoding method and apparatus therefor Oct 23, 2023 Issued
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18/493402
Encoding method and apparatus therefor, and decoding method and apparatus therefor Oct 23, 2023 Issued
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18/372182
OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE, OBJECT DETECTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Sep 24, 2023 Pending
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18/471047
SELECTIVELY ENCODING OR DECODING PIXELS OF AN IMAGE VIA RUN-LENGTH ENCODING OR DECODING OR GRADIENT ENCODING OR DECODING Sep 19, 2023 Pending
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18/369607
Predictive Perspective Correction Sep 17, 2023 Pending
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18/467914
EFFICIENT INTERFRAME MODE SEARCH FOR AV1 ENCODING Sep 14, 2023 Pending
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18/244648
Video coding method on basis of transformation, and device therefor Sep 10, 2023 Issued
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18/238356
VISUALIZATION APPARATUS FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF IMAGES OF A MICROSCOPY DEVICE Aug 24, 2023 Pending
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18/360351
Method for transform-based image coding and apparatus therefor Jul 26, 2023 Issued
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18/227134
APS signaling-based video or image coding Jul 26, 2023 Issued
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