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Stephen Edward Rieth

Examiner (ID: 10871, Phone: (571)272-6274 , Office: P/1764 )

Most Active Art Unit
1764
Art Unit(s)
1759, 1764
Total Applications
736
Issued Applications
297
Pending Applications
106
Abandoned Applications
362

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/188752
Method for scalable volumetric video coding Feb 28, 2021 Issued
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17/172088
Coding method, device, system with merge mode Feb 9, 2021 Issued
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17/167723
Binary split at picture boundary for image and video coding Feb 3, 2021 Issued
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17/164766
Multi-level significance maps for encoding and decoding Jan 31, 2021 Issued
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17/159508
DECODED PICTURE BUFFER (DPB) PARAMETER SIGNALING FOR VIDEO CODING Jan 26, 2021 Abandoned
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17/152122
THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING DEVICE Jan 18, 2021 Abandoned
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17/150968
Constrained Coding Tree for Video Coding Jan 14, 2021 Abandoned
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17/149669
Methods and apparatus of video coding using history-based motion vector prediction Jan 13, 2021 Issued
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17/791635
In-tree geometry quantization of point clouds Jan 7, 2021 Issued
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17/128965
Border partition Dec 20, 2020 Issued
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17/119702
INTRA SHARPENING AND/OR DE-RINGING FILTER FOR VIDEO CODING BASED ON A BITSTREAM FLAG Dec 10, 2020 Abandoned
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17/109873
Border handling for extended quadtree partitions Dec 1, 2020 Issued
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17/090199
Cross-component coding order derivation Nov 4, 2020 Issued
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17/081158
Method and apparatus for three-dimensional (3D)-tree coding for neural network model compression Oct 26, 2020 Issued
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17/072865
Luma and chroma block partitioning Oct 15, 2020 Issued
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17/071590
Pulse code modulation technique in video processing Oct 14, 2020 Issued
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17/060598
Method for processing image and apparatus therefor Sep 30, 2020 Issued
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17/036342
Intra mode coding Sep 28, 2020 Issued
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17/764385
Method and apparatus of combined inter and intra prediction with different chroma formats for video coding Sep 28, 2020 Issued
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17/760676
IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE USING REFERENCE SAMPLE FILTERING, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BITSTREAM Sep 20, 2020 Pending
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