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Michael J Lau

Examiner (ID: 14363)

Most Active Art Unit
3792
Art Unit(s)
3792, 3796
Total Applications
282
Issued Applications
148
Pending Applications
74
Abandoned Applications
60

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/578564
System and method providing object-oriented zoom in multimedia messaging Jan 18, 2022 Issued
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17/545933
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING A SCENE FOR A PLURALITY OF LIGHTING SETUPS USING A VARIABLE FRAME RATE CAMERA TO CAPTURE MICRO FRAMES DURING ONLY A PORTION OF EACH CINEMATIC FRAME Dec 7, 2021 Abandoned
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17/536963
Systems and methods of eliminating video flicker caused by LED duty cycling to maintain brightness and control power consumption Nov 28, 2021 Issued
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17/456425
IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE Nov 23, 2021 Pending
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17/528149
Image sensing system and image sensing data processing method Nov 15, 2021 Issued
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17/453397
Lens moving apparatus, camera module and mobile device including the same Nov 2, 2021 Issued
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17/507674
Windshield-mounted camera module Oct 20, 2021 Issued
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17/502345
Image sensing device Oct 14, 2021 Issued
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17/501808
Photoelectric conversion device, method of controlling photoelectric conversion device, and information processing apparatus Oct 13, 2021 Issued
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17/496875
Image pickup module, image pickup apparatus, and electronic device Oct 7, 2021 Issued
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17/496712
Digital pixel sensor having reduced quantization operation Oct 6, 2021 Issued
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17/479407
Photographing apparatus, method and medium using image recognition Sep 19, 2021 Issued
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17/470815
Camera module and method for assembling same Sep 8, 2021 Issued
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17/464273
Image sensing system and operating method thereof Aug 31, 2021 Issued
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17/460388
IMAGE SENSOR, IMAGE SENSING DEVICE INCLUDING SAME, AND OPERATING METHOD Aug 29, 2021 Pending
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17/406671
High dynamic range CMOS image sensor by pixel-embedded signal amplification and method thereof Aug 18, 2021 Issued
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17/385792
CMOS image sensor with image black level compensation and method Jul 25, 2021 Issued
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17/369420
IMAGE SENSOR AND OPERATION METHOD OF IMAGE SENSOR Jul 6, 2021 Abandoned
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17/358899
Apparatus, method and computer program for image capturing Jun 24, 2021 Issued
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17/351241
Medical image acquisition system and medical imaging device Jun 17, 2021 Issued
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