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Thomas B. Will

Supervisory Patent Examiner (ID: 17082, Phone: (571)272-6998 , Office: P/3671 )

Most Active Art Unit
2406
Art Unit(s)
2859, 2856, 2855, 2406, 3108, 3671, 3616
Total Applications
1203
Issued Applications
972
Pending Applications
68
Abandoned Applications
163

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/737872
NON-OPTICAL ELECTRONIC IMAGING LENS CAMERA APPARATUS, METHOD, AND A PROCESS THEREOF Jan 7, 2020 Abandoned
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16/723650
Fixing apparatus and method of sensing system Dec 19, 2019 Issued
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16/709244
Image capture device with an automatic image capture capability Dec 9, 2019 Issued
Array ( [id] => 16101459 [patent_doc_number] => 20200204716 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2020-06-25 [patent_title] => ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS CAPABLE OF DETECTING HALATION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/708992 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2019-12-10 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 12229 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -18 [patent_words_short_claim] => 66 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16708992 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/708992
Electronic apparatus and image capture apparatus capable of detecting halation, method of controlling electronic apparatus, method of controlling image capture apparatus, and storage medium Dec 9, 2019 Issued
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16/703570
Starting electronic communication based on captured image Dec 3, 2019 Issued
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16/701451
Electronic device with retractable camera module Dec 2, 2019 Issued
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17/297157
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, device for position and posture acquisition, and device information acquisition method Nov 21, 2019 Issued
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17/775998
Incident light information acquisition method, incident light information acquisition system, and information processing device Nov 20, 2019 Issued
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16/686487
Method and device for controlling front camera, mobile terminal and storage medium Nov 17, 2019 Issued
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16/681948
Camera device and mobile terminal Nov 12, 2019 Issued
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16/677718
Image pickup device and electronic system including the same Nov 7, 2019 Issued
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16/675413
Camera module and portable electronic device including the same Nov 5, 2019 Issued
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16/676001
Imaging apparatus and control method thereof Nov 5, 2019 Issued
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16/666058
Memory circuit and semiconductor device Oct 27, 2019 Issued
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16/663015
System, method, and computer program for capturing a flash image based on ambient and flash metering Oct 23, 2019 Issued
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16/656258
Image pickup device and electronic system including the same Oct 16, 2019 Issued
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16/653704
Video analysis and management techniques for media capture and retention Oct 14, 2019 Issued
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16/598044
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium Oct 9, 2019 Issued
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16/590446
Subrange ADC for image sensor Oct 1, 2019 Issued
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16/589025
Automatic generation of all-in-focus images with a mobile camera Sep 29, 2019 Issued
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