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Richard W. L. Ridley

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 6054, Phone: (571)272-6917 , Office: P/3656 )

Most Active Art Unit
3651
Art Unit(s)
3651, 3656, 3617, 3682, 2167
Total Applications
594
Issued Applications
447
Pending Applications
26
Abandoned Applications
121

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/757532
Method for encoding a digital image in order to compress same Dec 15, 2020 Issued
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17/119309
Information processing method and terminal device Dec 10, 2020 Issued
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17/117152
Parsing an ink document using object-level and stroke-level processing Dec 9, 2020 Issued
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17/117151
Detecting ink gestures based on spatial and image data processing Dec 9, 2020 Issued
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17/111515
Monitor method and monitor system thereof wherein mask is used to cover image for detecting object Dec 3, 2020 Issued
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17/782018
Systems, methods and programs for generating damage print in a vehicle Dec 1, 2020 Issued
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17/108976
Systems and methods for generating of 3D information on a user display from processing of sensor data for objects, components or features of interest in a scene and user navigation thereon Nov 30, 2020 Issued
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18/031564
Incremental 2D-to-3D pose lifting for fast and accurate human pose estimation Nov 30, 2020 Issued
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17/098707
Object detection in vehicles using cross-modality sensors Nov 15, 2020 Issued
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17/098376
Feature space based MR guided PET reconstruction Nov 13, 2020 Issued
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18/034833
HOMOGRAPHY MATRIX GENERATION APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM Nov 9, 2020 Pending
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17/088558
Image processing method and apparatus, and storage medium Nov 2, 2020 Issued
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18/246487
NEURAL NETWORKS TO DETERMINE RESPIRATION RATES Oct 28, 2020 Pending
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17/081411
System and Methods for Authentication of Documents Oct 26, 2020 Abandoned
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17/061331
Tunable signal sampling for improved key-data extraction Sep 30, 2020 Issued
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17/033298
Methods and apparatuses for detecting degraded ultrasound imaging frame rates Sep 24, 2020 Issued
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17/031378
Systems and methods for digital document field location identification Sep 23, 2020 Issued
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17/024896
Virtual ligament balancing Sep 17, 2020 Issued
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17/018958
Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for annotating, measuring, and modeling environments Sep 10, 2020 Issued
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17/017353
Interacting with hierarchical clusters of video segments using a metadata panel Sep 9, 2020 Issued
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