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Michael J. Hess

Examiner (ID: 12016, Phone: (571)270-7933 , Office: P/2481 )

Most Active Art Unit
2481
Art Unit(s)
2481
Total Applications
523
Issued Applications
208
Pending Applications
116
Abandoned Applications
226

Applications

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17/505227
Prediction precision improvements in video coding Oct 18, 2021 Issued
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17/505227
Prediction precision improvements in video coding Oct 18, 2021 Issued
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17/505227
Prediction precision improvements in video coding Oct 18, 2021 Issued
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17/505227
Prediction precision improvements in video coding Oct 18, 2021 Issued
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17/505227
Prediction precision improvements in video coding Oct 18, 2021 Issued
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17/505227
Prediction precision improvements in video coding Oct 18, 2021 Issued
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17/505227
Prediction precision improvements in video coding Oct 18, 2021 Issued
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17/505227
Prediction precision improvements in video coding Oct 18, 2021 Issued
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17/505227
Prediction precision improvements in video coding Oct 18, 2021 Issued
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17/450935
Method and apparatus for intra string copy Oct 13, 2021 Issued
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17/493163
Multi-depth plane display system with reduced switching between depth planes Oct 3, 2021 Issued
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17/489793
Chroma sample weight derivation for geometric partition mode Sep 29, 2021 Issued
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17/486584
Deblocking filtering control Sep 26, 2021 Issued
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17/477257
SUBPICTURE ENTITY GROUPS IN VIDEO CODING Sep 15, 2021 Pending
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17/476190
Transform-based image coding method and device therefor Sep 14, 2021 Issued
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17/471231
INSPECTION VEHICLE Sep 9, 2021 Abandoned
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17/406315
Context modeling and selection of multiple transform matrix Aug 18, 2021 Issued
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17/404452
Adaptive chroma downsampling and color space conversion techniques Aug 16, 2021 Issued
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17/400883
APS signaling-based video or image coding Aug 11, 2021 Issued
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17/390654
IMAGE DECODING METHOD BASED ON CCLM PREDICTION, AND DEVICE THEREFOR Jul 29, 2021 Abandoned
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