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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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17/848665
Methods for decoding and encoding an image, associated devices and signal Jun 23, 2022 Issued
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18/567969
Method for defining the clothes type of an occupant of a vehicle Jun 9, 2022 Issued
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17/828088
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 May 30, 2022 Issued
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17/751983
METHOD OF CONSTRAINED LAYER-WISE VIDEO CODING May 23, 2022 Abandoned
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17/749730
DNN-based cross component prediction May 19, 2022 Issued
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17/746159
Systems and methods for signaling reference pictures in video coding May 16, 2022 Issued
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17/743590
Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image signal May 12, 2022 Issued
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17/740753
Methods for cross component dependency reduction May 9, 2022 Issued
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17/740753
Methods for cross component dependency reduction May 9, 2022 Issued
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17/740753
Methods for cross component dependency reduction May 9, 2022 Issued
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17/740712
Method and device for decoding images using CCLM prediction in image coding system May 9, 2022 Issued
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17/740753
Methods for cross component dependency reduction May 9, 2022 Issued
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17/741383
Method and apparatus for decoding using reference line index based on intra prediction mode May 9, 2022 Issued
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18/558299
Method and assembly for non-destructively inspecting a surface structure May 3, 2022 Issued
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17/659646
Method and apparatus for coding video data in palette mode Apr 17, 2022 Issued
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17/722082
Colour component prediction method, encoder, decoder and storage medium Apr 14, 2022 Issued
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17/714881
Method for determining prediction direction, decoder, and computer storage medium Apr 5, 2022 Issued
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18/555851
Picture encoding method and apparatus, picture decoding method and apparatus, electronic device and storage medium Apr 1, 2022 Issued
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17/700813
Signaling of DPB parameters for multi-layer video bitstreams Mar 21, 2022 Issued
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17/700268
Information processing device to determine object distance Mar 20, 2022 Issued
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