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Stephone B Allen

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 16785, Phone: (571)272-2434 , Office: P/2872 )

Most Active Art Unit
2878
Art Unit(s)
2507, 2509, 2878, 2505, 2899, 2872
Total Applications
2126
Issued Applications
1773
Pending Applications
122
Abandoned Applications
217

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/296048
Image matching apparatus, image matching method, and program Nov 29, 2018 Issued
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16/198499
Determining clean or dirty captured images Nov 20, 2018 Issued
Array ( [id] => 15903891 [patent_doc_number] => 20200151465 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2020-05-14 [patent_title] => DETECTION AND PLANAR REPRESENTATON OF THREE DIMENSIONAL LANES IN A ROAD SCENE [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/189078 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2018-11-13 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 5999 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -17 [patent_words_short_claim] => 109 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16189078 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/189078
Detection and planar representation of three dimensional lanes in a road scene Nov 12, 2018 Issued
Array ( [id] => 15790409 [patent_doc_number] => 10628932 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2020-04-21 [patent_title] => Quality indicators for collection of and automated measurement on ultrasound images [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/172076 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2018-10-26 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 24 [patent_figures_cnt] => 24 [patent_no_of_words] => 15384 [patent_no_of_claims] => 19 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 168 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16172076 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/172076
Quality indicators for collection of and automated measurement on ultrasound images Oct 25, 2018 Issued
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16/171340
GRADIENT COMPRESSING APPARATUS, GRADIENT COMPRESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Oct 24, 2018 Abandoned
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16/755635
Method and device for predictive encoding/decoding of a point cloud Oct 10, 2018 Issued
Array ( [id] => 14365403 [patent_doc_number] => 10304009 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B1 [patent_issue_date] => 2019-05-28 [patent_title] => Learning method and testing method for object detector based on R-CNN, and learning device and testing device using the same [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/154026 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2018-10-08 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 8 [patent_figures_cnt] => 8 [patent_no_of_words] => 14124 [patent_no_of_claims] => 30 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 4 [patent_words_short_claim] => 531 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16154026 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/154026
Learning method and testing method for object detector based on R-CNN, and learning device and testing device using the same Oct 7, 2018 Issued
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16/772820
Display device failure detection method, device and system Sep 24, 2018 Issued
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17/053706
Method and system of deep supervision object detection for reducing resource usage Sep 10, 2018 Issued
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16/056370
Equatorial stitching of hemispherical images in a spherical image capture system Aug 5, 2018 Issued
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16/032748
Image coding/decoding method, device, and system Jul 10, 2018 Issued
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16/620768
PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL AND PROBLEM SOLVING SYSTEM Jun 18, 2018 Pending
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16/005342
System and Method for Determining and Suggesting Contextually-Related Slide(s) in Slide Suggestions Jun 10, 2018 Abandoned
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16/004989
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium Jun 10, 2018 Issued
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16/004451
Video dehazing device and method Jun 10, 2018 Issued
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16/005584
Grid layout determination from a document image Jun 10, 2018 Issued
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16/005610
Neural network image processing apparatus Jun 10, 2018 Issued
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16/004735
Active segmention of scanned images based on deep reinforcement learning for OCR applications Jun 10, 2018 Issued
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15/989034
Method for controlling unlocking and terminal device May 23, 2018 Issued
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15/987930
Patch selection for neural network based no-reference image quality assessment May 23, 2018 Issued
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