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Nam D. Pham

Examiner (ID: 2172, Phone: (571)270-7352 , Office: P/2487 )

Most Active Art Unit
2487
Art Unit(s)
2482, 2487
Total Applications
949
Issued Applications
835
Pending Applications
78
Abandoned Applications
63

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/513492
Geometric partition mode with motion vector refinement Nov 16, 2023 Issued
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18/507279
Bitrate-adaptive segmentation for video transcoding Nov 12, 2023 Issued
Array ( [id] => 19039689 [patent_doc_number] => 20240089504 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2024-03-14 [patent_title] => Transform Skip Residual Coding [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 18/504317 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2023-11-08 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 21038 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -16 [patent_words_short_claim] => 89 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 18504317 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
18/504317
Transform skip residual coding Nov 7, 2023 Issued
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18/499954
Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding a picture using picture boundary handling Oct 31, 2023 Issued
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18/496910
ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF INTRA PREDICTION Oct 28, 2023 Abandoned
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18/493002
Efficient sub-picture extraction Oct 23, 2023 Issued
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18/486641
Interaction between Intra Block Copy mode and inter prediction tools Oct 12, 2023 Issued
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18/378211
Image processing device and image processing method Oct 9, 2023 Issued
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18/480957
Short distance predictions for residual blocks Oct 3, 2023 Issued
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18/371580
SERIALLY CONNECTED CAMERA RAIL Sep 21, 2023 Abandoned
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18/462638
Method and device using inter prediction information Sep 6, 2023 Issued
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18/462201
Description of image composition with HEVC still image file format Sep 5, 2023 Issued
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18/456346
Apparatus and method for coding pictures using a convolutional neural network Aug 24, 2023 Issued
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18/451942
Transforms on non-dyadic blocks Aug 17, 2023 Issued
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18/451933
Unsymmetric binary tree partitioning and non-dyadic blocks Aug 17, 2023 Issued
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18/447861
Video decoder initialization information signaling Aug 9, 2023 Issued
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18/228225
Display module and display device including the same Jul 30, 2023 Issued
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18/998363
Video Image Decoding Method and Coding Method, Apparatus, and Storage Medium Jun 29, 2023 Pending
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18/345531
Rice parameter derivation for high bit-depth video coding Jun 29, 2023 Issued
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18/994221
VIDEO IN-LOOP FILTER ADAPTIVE TO VARIOUS TYPES OF NOISE AND CHARACTERISTICS Jun 21, 2023 Pending
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