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Michael P. Ferguson

Examiner (ID: 13117, Phone: (571)272-7081 , Office: P/3679 )

Most Active Art Unit
3679
Art Unit(s)
3679, 3619, 3629, 3678
Total Applications
1874
Issued Applications
1106
Pending Applications
140
Abandoned Applications
655

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/903424
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING USING SELECTIVE MULTIPLE REFERENCE LINE Sep 30, 2024 Pending
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18/902333
Device for deriving affine merge candidate Sep 29, 2024 Issued
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18/902138
VIDEO DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND VIDEO ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS Sep 29, 2024 Pending
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18/897404
DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DECODING VIDEO DATA Sep 25, 2024 Pending
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18/884703
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING USING INTRA MIRROR PREDICTION Sep 12, 2024 Pending
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18/799312
SYMMETRIC MOTION VECTOR DIFFERENCE CODING Aug 8, 2024 Pending
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18/792534
IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS INVOLVING MERGE CANDIDATE LIST AND TRIANGULAR SHAPE PARTITIONS Jul 31, 2024 Pending
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18/782503
Image decoding apparatus Jul 23, 2024 Issued
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18/753680
Methods and devices for decoder-side intra mode derivation Jun 24, 2024 Issued
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18/753852
INTRA PREDICTION METHOD AND DECODER Jun 24, 2024 Pending
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18/749192
Method, and apparatus for reference frame selection, electronic device, and storage medium Jun 19, 2024 Issued
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18/678287
VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING BI-DIRECTIONAL INTRA PREDICTION MODE May 29, 2024 Pending
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18/673001
BLOCK VECTOR SEARCH FOR INTRA-BLOCK COPY PREDICTION FOR CODING VIDEO DATA May 22, 2024 Pending
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18/652477
Methods and apparatuses of encoding/decoding intra prediction mode using candidate intra prediction modes Apr 30, 2024 Issued
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18/641873
Entropy continuation and dependent frame entropy coding in point cloud compression Apr 21, 2024 Issued
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18/636003
METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Apr 14, 2024 Pending
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18/636042
METHOD, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Apr 14, 2024 Pending
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18/634219
Transform Selection for Reconstructed-Reordered Template Matching Prediction (RRTMP) Apr 11, 2024 Pending
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18/633372
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHROMA MODE CODING IN RECURSIVE INTRA/INTER REGION Apr 10, 2024 Pending
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18/627971
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING USING A GEOMETRIC PARTITIONING MODE Apr 4, 2024 Pending
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