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Stephani A. Hill

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Most Active Art Unit
1735
Art Unit(s)
1735
Total Applications
505
Issued Applications
109
Pending Applications
117
Abandoned Applications
290

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/585770
Block partitioning methods for video coding Feb 22, 2024 Issued
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18/586227
Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method Feb 22, 2024 Issued
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18/442607
Transform-based image coding method and apparatus therefor Feb 14, 2024 Issued
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18/423017
TECHNIQUES TO COMPENSATE FOR MOVEMENT OF SENSORS IN A VEHICLE Jan 24, 2024 Abandoned
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18/416906
Method for constructing tile structure and apparatus therefor Jan 18, 2024 Issued
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18/418095
Automatically assessing an anatomical surface feature and securely managing information related to the same Jan 18, 2024 Issued
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18/412588
Prediction mode determining method and apparatus, encoding device, and decoding device Jan 13, 2024 Issued
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18/407090
Intra prediction mode derivation for coding blocks Jan 7, 2024 Issued
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18/541960
Image decoding method, image encoding method, image decoding device, image encoding device, and computer-readable recording medium Dec 14, 2023 Issued
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18/530227
Service system, information processing apparatus, and service providing method Dec 5, 2023 Issued
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18/527169
Image coding/decoding method, coder, decoder, and storage medium Nov 30, 2023 Issued
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18/526300
Storage of intra mode information in geometric partition mode Nov 30, 2023 Issued
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18/521946
Encoding and decoding methods and corresponding devices Nov 27, 2023 Issued
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18/520259
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SIGNALING AND PERFORMING SECONDARY TRANSFORMS Nov 26, 2023 Pending
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18/519558
Palette based coding with local dual tree coding structure Nov 26, 2023 Issued
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18/520421
Signaling of multiview tiled volumetric video Nov 26, 2023 Issued
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18/514291
On block level bi-prediction with weighted averaging Nov 19, 2023 Issued
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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
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18/507289
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING GRAPH FEDERATED LEARNING MODELS USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING-BASED DATA AUGMENTATION Nov 12, 2023 Pending
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