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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

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18/927278
Overlapped Filtering For Temporally Interpolated Prediction Blocks Oct 24, 2024 Pending
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18/913430
METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PREDICTION DEPENDENT RESIDUAL SCALING FOR VIDEO CODING Oct 10, 2024 Pending
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18/912347
Truncated bit depth support SEI messages Oct 9, 2024 Issued
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18/888890
SUPPORTS FOR DYNAMICALLY BENDABLE AUTO INTERIOR COVER MATERIALS Sep 17, 2024 Pending
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18/882029
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE SIGNAL Sep 10, 2024 Pending
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18/817612
CAMERA MONITOR SYSTEM FOR COMMERCIAL VEHICLES INCLUDING WHEEL POSITION ESTIMATION Aug 27, 2024 Pending
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18/804950
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CODING VIDEO USING MERGING CANDIDATE LIST ACCORDING TO BLOCK DIVISION Aug 13, 2024 Pending
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18/805406
ENCODING STRATEGIES FOR ADAPTIVE SWITCHING OF COLOR SPACES, COLOR SAMPLING RATES AND/OR BIT DEPTHS Aug 13, 2024 Pending
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18/797762
Systems and methods for signaling reference pictures in video coding Aug 7, 2024 Issued
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18/794375
Signaling decoded picture buffer size in multi-loop scalable video coding Aug 4, 2024 Issued
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18/785313
Use of a convolutional neural network to auto-determine a floor height and floor height elevation of a building Jul 25, 2024 Issued
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18/781294
ENCODER, DECODER, ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING METHOD Jul 22, 2024 Pending
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18/773707
METHOD FOR DERIVING BIDIRECTIONAL PREDICTION WEIGHT INDEX AND VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS Jul 15, 2024 Pending
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18/773724
Video coding method deriving bidirectional prediction weight index Jul 15, 2024 Issued
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18/773692
METHOD FOR DERIVING BIDIRECTIONAL PREDICTION WEIGHT INDEX AND VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS Jul 15, 2024 Pending
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18/772626
Method for deriving bidirectional prediction weight index and video decoding apparatus Jul 14, 2024 Issued
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18/762640
Method for determining prediction direction, decoder, and computer storage medium Jul 2, 2024 Issued
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18/760119
Real-time monitoring system for personal protective equipment compliance at worksites Jun 30, 2024 Issued
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18/759807
PAN COATING VISUALIZATION ENHANCEMENT MATERIAL, APPARATUS, AND METHOD Jun 28, 2024 Pending
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18/750793
Forward collision warning Jun 20, 2024 Issued
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