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Nam D. Pham

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Most Active Art Unit
2487
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2487, 2482
Total Applications
976
Issued Applications
853
Pending Applications
79
Abandoned Applications
65

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17/585718
Selection of matrices for reduced secondary transform in video coding Jan 26, 2022 Issued
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17/585718
Selection of matrices for reduced secondary transform in video coding Jan 26, 2022 Issued
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17/581154
Transform-based image coding method and apparatus therefor Jan 20, 2022 Issued
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18/277016
IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD Jan 18, 2022 Abandoned
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17/568512
Efficient sub-picture extraction Jan 3, 2022 Issued
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17/567270
Automatically assessing an anatomical surface feature and securely managing information related to the same Jan 2, 2022 Issued
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17/567313
Method of encoding or decoding video blocks by current picture referencing coding Jan 2, 2022 Issued
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17/567302
Apparatus of encoding or decoding video blocks by current picture referencing coding Jan 2, 2022 Issued
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17/646237
Controllable laser pattern for eye safety and reduced power consumption for image capture devices Dec 27, 2021 Issued
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17/556259
Image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, image encoding method, image decoding method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium Dec 19, 2021 Issued
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17/555200
Motion prediction-based image coding method and device Dec 16, 2021 Issued
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17/550847
Image decoding method for deriving weight index information for biprediction, and device for same Dec 13, 2021 Issued
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17/549039
Caching and clearing mechanism for deep convolutional neural networks Dec 12, 2021 Issued
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17/457435
Solar ray mapping via divergent beam modeling Dec 2, 2021 Issued
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17/540068
Motion candidate list with geometric partition mode coding Nov 30, 2021 Issued
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17/535095
Modified transform-based image coding method and device for same Nov 23, 2021 Issued
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17/456162
Image analysis and estimation of rooftop solar exposure Nov 21, 2021 Issued
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17/528312
Techniques for modifying quantization parameter in transform skip mode Nov 16, 2021 Issued
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17/528823
Reduced residual inter prediction Nov 16, 2021 Issued
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17/526529
Image processing device and image processing method Nov 14, 2021 Issued
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