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Patrick J. Ryan

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 215, Phone: (571)272-1292 , Office: P/1726 )

Most Active Art Unit
1508
Art Unit(s)
3307, 1725, 1508, 1795, 1726, 1513, 1317, 1722, 1506, 1745
Total Applications
985
Issued Applications
862
Pending Applications
7
Abandoned Applications
116

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/264122
Automatically creating time entries based on a video showing a user's surroundings Jan 30, 2019 Issued
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16/260414
Cloud device, terminal device, and method for classifying images Jan 28, 2019 Issued
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16/258817
Substrate position detection device Jan 27, 2019 Issued
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16/255670
Method and apparatus for image and video coding using hierarchical sample adaptive band offset Jan 22, 2019 Issued
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16/244854
Apparatus for encoding and decoding image by skip encoding and method for same Jan 9, 2019 Issued
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16/203615
Defect detection apparatus and method Nov 28, 2018 Issued
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16/204211
Registering the harvest of a resource using image data and metadata Nov 28, 2018 Issued
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16/200093
Automatic generation of fundus drawings Nov 25, 2018 Issued
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16/194465
Traffic recognition and adaptive ground removal based on LIDAR point cloud statistics Nov 18, 2018 Issued
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16/174484
Imaging device and operating method thereof Oct 29, 2018 Issued
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16/175269
Image detection method, apparatus and system and storage medium Oct 29, 2018 Issued
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16/174484
Imaging device and operating method thereof Oct 29, 2018 Issued
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16/166694
Image inspection apparatus, image inspection method, image inspection program, computer-readable recording medium and recording device Oct 21, 2018 Issued
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16/121376
Optical character recognition (OCR) accuracy by combining results across video frames Sep 3, 2018 Issued
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16/117891
Object region identifying apparatus, object region identifying method, and computer program product Aug 29, 2018 Issued
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16/118312
Eye gesture tracking Aug 29, 2018 Issued
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16/106351
Method to automate detection of vehicle lamp degradation Aug 20, 2018 Issued
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16/102112
Iterative defect filtering process Aug 12, 2018 Issued
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16/038870
Edge detection using fuzzy gradient information Jul 17, 2018 Issued
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16/025521
Method for iris recognition and related products Jul 1, 2018 Issued
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