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Suzanne E. Mcdowell

Examiner (ID: 13054)

Most Active Art Unit
1732
Art Unit(s)
1307, 1732, 1791
Total Applications
702
Issued Applications
527
Pending Applications
59
Abandoned Applications
116

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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09/411201
Video token tracking system for animation Oct 3, 1999 Issued
Array ( [id] => 1549143 [patent_doc_number] => 06445389 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B1 [patent_issue_date] => 2002-09-03 [patent_title] => 'Compression of polygonal models with low latency decompression' [patent_app_type] => B1 [patent_app_number] => 09/411448 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 1999-10-01 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 6 [patent_figures_cnt] => 9 [patent_no_of_words] => 2783 [patent_no_of_claims] => 19 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 87 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/06/445/06445389.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 09411448 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
09/411448
Compression of polygonal models with low latency decompression Sep 30, 1999 Issued
09/390044 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTIVE MARKING OF MOVING OBJECTS IN VIDEO STREAMS AND ANIMATED IMAGE SEQUENCES Sep 2, 1999 Abandoned
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09/378633
System, apparatus and method for spatially sorting image data in a three-dimensional graphics pipeline Aug 19, 1999 Issued
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09/378598
Apparatus and method for performing setup operations in a 3-D graphics pipeline using unified primitive descriptors Aug 19, 1999 Issued
Array ( [id] => 1449270 [patent_doc_number] => 06369822 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B1 [patent_issue_date] => 2002-04-09 [patent_title] => 'Audio-driven visual representations' [patent_app_type] => B1 [patent_app_number] => 09/373405 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 1999-08-12 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 3 [patent_figures_cnt] => 5 [patent_no_of_words] => 4817 [patent_no_of_claims] => 18 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 8 [patent_words_short_claim] => 43 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/06/369/06369822.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 09373405 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
09/373405
Audio-driven visual representations Aug 11, 1999 Issued
Array ( [id] => 1453428 [patent_doc_number] => 06456289 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B1 [patent_issue_date] => 2002-09-24 [patent_title] => 'Animation system and method for a animating object fracture' [patent_app_type] => B1 [patent_app_number] => 09/369608 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 1999-08-06 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 15 [patent_figures_cnt] => 56 [patent_no_of_words] => 10336 [patent_no_of_claims] => 18 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 4 [patent_words_short_claim] => 55 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] => patents/06/456/06456289.pdf [firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 09369608 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
09/369608
Animation system and method for a animating object fracture Aug 5, 1999 Issued
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09/362580
Video processing and rendering Jul 27, 1999 Issued
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09/358670
Method for detecting incorrectly oriented lofted solids in a solid modeling system Jul 21, 1999 Issued
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09/357233
System and apparatus for customizing a computer animation wireframe Jul 19, 1999 Issued
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09/357576
Method and apparatus for generating patches from a 3D mesh model Jul 19, 1999 Issued
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09/357578
Method and apparatus for generating mesh models of 3D objects Jul 19, 1999 Issued
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09/356581
Method for compressing graphical information Jul 18, 1999 Issued
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09/356855
Method and apparatus for generating a 3D region from a surrounding imagery Jul 18, 1999 Issued
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09/354876
Apparatus and method for real-time volume processing and universal 3D rendering Jul 15, 1999 Issued
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09/356398
Method and apparatus for compressed texture caching in a video graphics system Jul 15, 1999 Issued
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09/356254
Functional animation including sprite tree generator and interpreter Jul 15, 1999 Issued
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09/345341
Computer graphics animation method and device Jun 30, 1999 Issued
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09/339640
Quadric metric for simplifying meshes with appearance attributes Jun 23, 1999 Issued
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09/339475
Extracting photographic images from video Jun 22, 1999 Issued
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