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Richard Thomas Price Jr.

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3643
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2899, 3303, 3616, 3643
Total Applications
3871
Issued Applications
3349
Pending Applications
204
Abandoned Applications
336

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19/074754
Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus Mar 9, 2025 Issued
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19/003245
VIDEO CODING METHOD AND VIDEO DECODER Dec 26, 2024 Pending
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18/958123
Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for determining sublayer on basis of whether or not to make reference between layers, and method for transmitting bitstream Nov 24, 2024 Issued
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18/945164
METHOD AND AN ENCODER FOR INTER-ENCODING AN IMAGE FRAME Nov 11, 2024 Pending
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18/941358
METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL USING REDUCED TRANSFORM Nov 7, 2024 Issued
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18/930537
Picture coding supporting block partitioning and block merging Oct 28, 2024 Issued
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18/755493
EMPLOYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) DATA PREDICTED FROM TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) IMAGES USING NEURAL NETWORKS FOR 3D MODELING APPLICATIONS AND OTHER APPLICATIONS Jun 25, 2024 Pending
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18/748653
Detection device and detection system Jun 19, 2024 Issued
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18/669442
CAPTURING AND ALIGNING THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCENES May 19, 2024 Pending
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18/633838
Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus Apr 11, 2024 Issued
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18/597259
Infrared light projection control apparatus, infrared light projection control method, and computer-readable storage medium storing infrared light projection control program Mar 5, 2024 Issued
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18/583990
Image processing apparatus Feb 21, 2024 Issued
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18/424780
Exposure Time Control for Imaging Device Jan 26, 2024 Pending
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18/412424
Systems and methods for personnel location at a drilling site Jan 11, 2024 Issued
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18/412434
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING, MEASURING, COUNTING, AND AIDING IN THE HANDLING OF DRILL PIPES Jan 11, 2024 Pending
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18/410616
Skin reflectance image correction in biometric image capture Jan 10, 2024 Issued
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18/538870
Subset conditioning using variational autoencoder with a learnable tensor train induced prior Dec 12, 2023 Issued
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18/530610
THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING DEVICE Dec 5, 2023 Pending
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18/474517
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SMOOTH MODE PREDICTIONS Sep 25, 2023 Pending
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18/460432
Picture coding supporting block partitioning and block merging Aug 31, 2023 Issued
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