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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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11/873014
Apparatus and method for color reproduction Oct 15, 2007 Issued
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11/873390
Detection and tracking of moving objects from a moving platform in presence of strong parallax Oct 15, 2007 Issued
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11/872446
Album creating apparatus, album creating method and computer readable medium storing thereon program therefor Oct 14, 2007 Issued
Array ( [id] => 11228492 [patent_doc_number] => 09456222 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2016-09-27 [patent_title] => 'Local illumination and color compensation without explicit signaling' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 12/311918 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2007-10-11 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 4 [patent_figures_cnt] => 4 [patent_no_of_words] => 8259 [patent_no_of_claims] => 29 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 5 [patent_words_short_claim] => 114 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 12311918 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
12/311918
Local illumination and color compensation without explicit signaling Oct 10, 2007 Issued
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12/311929
Local illumination and color compensation without explicit signaling Oct 10, 2007 Issued
Array ( [id] => 7529212 [patent_doc_number] => 08045816 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2011-10-25 [patent_title] => 'Image quantization method and apparatus with color distortion removing quantization matrix' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 11/835023 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2007-08-07 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 8 [patent_figures_cnt] => 11 [patent_no_of_words] => 4448 [patent_no_of_claims] => 22 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 110 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/08/045/08045816.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 11835023 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
11/835023
Image quantization method and apparatus with color distortion removing quantization matrix Aug 6, 2007 Issued
Array ( [id] => 5415458 [patent_doc_number] => 20090041345 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2009-02-12 [patent_title] => 'METHOD AND SYSTEM OF FACILITATING SEARCH BY COLOR' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 11/835337 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2007-08-07 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 6 [patent_figures_cnt] => 6 [patent_no_of_words] => 3046 [patent_no_of_claims] => 25 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 0 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] => publications/A1/0041/20090041345.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 11835337 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
11/835337
Method and system of facilitating search by color Aug 6, 2007 Issued
Array ( [id] => 4493795 [patent_doc_number] => 07903888 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2011-03-08 [patent_title] => 'Image encoding apparatus and image decoding apparatus' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 11/835099 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2007-08-07 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 24 [patent_figures_cnt] => 48 [patent_no_of_words] => 12488 [patent_no_of_claims] => 14 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 4 [patent_words_short_claim] => 127 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/07/903/07903888.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 11835099 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
11/835099
Image encoding apparatus and image decoding apparatus Aug 6, 2007 Issued
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11/834890
Image processing apparatus and control method thereof with color data and monochrome data selection Aug 6, 2007 Issued
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11/834215
Image processing apparatus and method for attribute data encoding Aug 5, 2007 Issued
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11/834215
Image processing apparatus and method for attribute data encoding Aug 5, 2007 Issued
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11/834624
Low dynamic range 3-channel color compression Aug 5, 2007 Issued
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11/834215
Image processing apparatus and method for attribute data encoding Aug 5, 2007 Issued
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11/834215
Image processing apparatus and method for attribute data encoding Aug 5, 2007 Issued
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11/834627
Low dynamic range 3-channel color decompression Aug 5, 2007 Issued
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11/834474
ENHANCING DIGITAL IMAGES USING SECONDARY OPTICAL SYSTEMS Aug 5, 2007 Abandoned
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11/888453
System and method for identifying complex tokens in an image Jul 31, 2007 Issued
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12/309445
ANALYSIS METHOD FOR CHEMICAL AND/OR BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES Jul 16, 2007 Abandoned
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12/374108
Efficient user interaction with polygonal meshes for medical image segmentation Jul 1, 2007 Issued
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11/766739
Efficient fixed-point approximations of forward and inverse discrete cosine transforms Jun 20, 2007 Issued
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