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Stuart N. Hecker

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2305
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2111, 2303, 2305, 2838, 2312, 2722, 2604
Total Applications
541
Issued Applications
514
Pending Applications
11
Abandoned Applications
16

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/081260
Close-in sensing camera system Dec 13, 2022 Issued
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17/982139
Flexible scaling factors for joint MVD coding Nov 6, 2022 Issued
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17/982189
Mixed-model cross-component prediction mode Nov 6, 2022 Issued
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17/981439
Video recording apparatus and controlling method thereof Nov 5, 2022 Issued
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17/977589
Video decoding method, video encoding method, related devices, and storage medium Oct 30, 2022 Issued
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17/977903
Signaling output picture size for reference picture resampling Oct 30, 2022 Issued
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17/976666
Triangulation-based adaptive subsampling of dense motion vector fields Oct 27, 2022 Issued
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17/970920
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSFORM SELECTION IN VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING Oct 20, 2022 Abandoned
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17/970066
Video decoding method, video coding method, and related apparatus Oct 19, 2022 Issued
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17/970462
Decoding method and coding method for unmatched pixel, decoder, and encoder Oct 19, 2022 Issued
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17/966891
Optical navigation device with increased depth of field Oct 16, 2022 Issued
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17/963938
Defining a search range for motion estimation for each scenario frame set Oct 10, 2022 Issued
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17/963923
Systems and methods for end-to-end feature compression in coding of multi-dimensional data Oct 10, 2022 Issued
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17/963614
Methods and devices for refining motion vector candidates Oct 10, 2022 Issued
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17/963426
THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING DEVICE Oct 10, 2022 Pending
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17/960875
IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, VEHICLE, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Oct 5, 2022 Abandoned
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17/958161
Template-matching based adaptive motion vector resolution (AMVR) Sep 29, 2022 Issued
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18/695191
Method for decoding video from video bitstream encoded using video encoder, system for decoding video bitstream comprising compressed video data of video, and computer-readable medium Sep 28, 2022 Issued
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18/712139
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF A VEHICLE IMAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM Sep 27, 2022 Pending
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17/953937
Level information in video coding Sep 26, 2022 Issued
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