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Robert J. Hance

Examiner (ID: 5851, Phone: (571)270-5319 , Office: P/2421 )

Most Active Art Unit
2423
Art Unit(s)
2421, 3992, 2422, 2423, 2623
Total Applications
865
Issued Applications
552
Pending Applications
73
Abandoned Applications
251

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/563592
FAILURE RECOVERY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Jun 2, 2022 Pending
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17/742014
Motion candidate derivation based on spatial neighboring block in sub-block motion vector prediction May 10, 2022 Issued
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17/715903
In-loop filtering method and apparatus for same Apr 6, 2022 Issued
90/014991 Consumer Electronic Registration, Control and Support Concierge Device and Method Mar 28, 2022 Pending
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17/699552
Image decoding device and image coding device Mar 20, 2022 Issued
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17/685183
Interruptible video transcoding Mar 1, 2022 Issued
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17/590254
Method and apparatus for tile-relative addressing in video coding Jan 31, 2022 Issued
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17/584153
Method, device, and recording medium storing bit stream, for encoding/decoding image Jan 24, 2022 Issued
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17/570042
Method and apparatus for determining bandwidth, and electronic device and storage medium Jan 5, 2022 Issued
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17/555291
Methods and apparatuses for decoder-side motion vector refinement in video coding Dec 16, 2021 Issued
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17/643051
Rapid ground-plane discrimination in stereoscopic images Dec 6, 2021 Issued
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17/532858
Matching and ranking content items Nov 21, 2021 Issued
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17/523286
Motion vector range based on motion vector precision Nov 9, 2021 Issued
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17/507474
Reducing multicast join latency for IPTV streams Oct 20, 2021 Issued
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17/503898
Parallel scheduling of multilayered media Oct 17, 2021 Issued
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17/502852
Apparatus and methods for video compression Oct 14, 2021 Issued
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17/449943
Steerable positioning element Oct 3, 2021 Issued
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17/449735
Method and system for effective adaptive bitrate streaming Sep 30, 2021 Issued
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17/469997
Systems and methods for applying deblocking filters to reconstructed video data Sep 8, 2021 Issued
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18/575071
CHANNEL MEASUREMENT AND REPORTING IN DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS SYSTEMS Aug 31, 2021 Pending
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