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Stephen C. Smith

Examiner (ID: 1092, Phone: (313)446-4914 , Office: P/2896 )

Most Active Art Unit
2896
Art Unit(s)
2896, 2895
Total Applications
248
Issued Applications
202
Pending Applications
0
Abandoned Applications
46

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/094397
Drive assist device Nov 9, 2020 Issued
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17/078156
Method for protecting an input control console with a drape Oct 22, 2020 Issued
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17/076070
Compensation of three-dimensional measuring instrument having an autofocus camera Oct 20, 2020 Issued
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17/032429
Information processing system, method and computer readable medium for determining whether moving bodies appearing in first and second videos are the same or not using histogram Sep 24, 2020 Issued
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17/029239
Signaling quantization matrix Sep 22, 2020 Issued
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17/019567
Signaling of inter layer prediction in video bitstream Sep 13, 2020 Issued
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17/019713
Signaling of inter layer prediction in video bitstream Sep 13, 2020 Issued
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17/010260
Baking pan image capture system Sep 1, 2020 Issued
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17/005333
Inter-layer dynamic range scalability for HDR video Aug 27, 2020 Issued
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17/001023
Selective quantization parameter transmission Aug 23, 2020 Issued
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16/991175
Video encoding method, device and storage medium using resolution information Aug 11, 2020 Issued
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16/989426
IMAGE PROCESSING Aug 9, 2020 Abandoned
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16/918269
Method and apparatus for adaptive point cloud attribute coding Jun 30, 2020 Issued
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17/623438
Method for deriving bidirectional prediction weight index and video decoding apparatus Jun 25, 2020 Issued
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16/913227
Intra-prediction with multiple reference lines Jun 25, 2020 Issued
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16/912613
Monitoring system Jun 24, 2020 Issued
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16/912600
Monitoring system for detecting events using obstruction area rate Jun 24, 2020 Issued
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17/623367
Image decoding method using chroma quantization parameter table, and device therefor Jun 23, 2020 Issued
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16/911003
Signalling chroma quantization parameter (QP) mapping tables Jun 23, 2020 Issued
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16/910836
Method and apparatus for video coding using inter-prediction mode signaling to dertermine motion vectors Jun 23, 2020 Issued
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