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Michael Rafa

Examiner (ID: 7734)

Most Active Art Unit
3309
Art Unit(s)
3309, 3306
Total Applications
310
Issued Applications
253
Pending Applications
1
Abandoned Applications
56

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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14/770875
IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD Jan 13, 2014 Abandoned
Array ( [id] => 10439941 [patent_doc_number] => 20150324953 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2015-11-12 [patent_title] => 'METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SINGLE-IMAGE SUPER-RESOLUTION' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 14/762202 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2014-01-14 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 9 [patent_figures_cnt] => 9 [patent_no_of_words] => 7606 [patent_no_of_claims] => 14 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 4 [patent_words_short_claim] => 0 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 14762202 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
14/762202
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SINGLE-IMAGE SUPER-RESOLUTION Jan 13, 2014 Abandoned
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14/153357
Efficient user interaction with polygonal meshes for medical image segmentation Jan 12, 2014 Issued
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14/908741
Method and apparatus of building intermediate character library Dec 4, 2013 Issued
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14/067062
Apparatus and method for compression of image data assembles into groups with positional indexes Oct 29, 2013 Issued
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14/067409
Image processor for and method of upscaling and denoising using contextual video information Oct 29, 2013 Issued
Array ( [id] => 10501774 [patent_doc_number] => 09230175 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2016-01-05 [patent_title] => 'System and method for motion detection in a surveillance video' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 14/064713 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2013-10-28 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 13 [patent_figures_cnt] => 25 [patent_no_of_words] => 7863 [patent_no_of_claims] => 19 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 191 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 14064713 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
14/064713
System and method for motion detection in a surveillance video Oct 27, 2013 Issued
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14/064706
Method for in-image periodic noise pixel inpainting Oct 27, 2013 Issued
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14/064540
Image processing apparatus and method, and program to generate high-quality image using normalized image Oct 27, 2013 Issued
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14/065193
ITERATIVE METHOD FOR DETERMINING A TWO-DIMENSIONAL OR THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE ON THE BASIS OF SIGNALS ARISING FROM X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY Oct 27, 2013 Abandoned
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14/064559
Method, apparatus and system for determining a boundary of an obstacle which occludes an object in an image Oct 27, 2013 Issued
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14/064654
Custom drawings as content access identifiers Oct 27, 2013 Issued
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14/031393
Coding position data for the last non-zero transform coefficient in a coefficient group Sep 18, 2013 Issued
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14/031407
IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM Sep 18, 2013 Abandoned
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14/031188
Method and apparatus for image filtering Sep 18, 2013 Issued
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14/031487
Method for testing organic pattern Sep 18, 2013 Issued
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14/030574
Methods and systems for scene recognition Sep 17, 2013 Issued
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14/890884
Geodesic saliency using background priors Jul 30, 2013 Issued
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13/950326
Method, system and computer program product for optimization of data compression with iterative cost function Jul 24, 2013 Issued
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13/930410
Method for directional adaptive image interpolation and an electronic device thereof Jun 27, 2013 Issued
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