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Thomas John Ward

Examiner (ID: 19230, Phone: (571)270-1786 , Office: P/3742 )

Most Active Art Unit
3761
Art Unit(s)
3742, 3671, 3761
Total Applications
726
Issued Applications
326
Pending Applications
91
Abandoned Applications
326

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/944071
Techniques to generate interpolated video frames Jul 29, 2020 Issued
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16/927200
Method and apparatus for video coding Jul 12, 2020 Issued
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16/924280
Image pickup apparatus, method of manufacturing image pickup apparatus, and endoscope Jul 8, 2020 Issued
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16/916693
Method, electronic device, and computer program product for data indexing Jun 29, 2020 Issued
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16/915941
LOW LATENCY BROWSER BASED CLIENT INTERFACE FOR A DISTRIBUTED SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM Jun 28, 2020 Abandoned
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16/914513
Depth sensor with interlaced sampling structure Jun 28, 2020 Abandoned
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18/000919
Method for encoding and decoding, encoder, and decoder Jun 23, 2020 Issued
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16/903778
Information processing device, biological information measurement device, and computer-readable medium Jun 16, 2020 Issued
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16/899262
Storage system and method for frame trimming to optimize network bandwidth Jun 10, 2020 Issued
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16/892921
DISTRIBUTED STORAGE OF CONTENT ACROSS STORAGE SUBSYSTEMS Jun 3, 2020 Abandoned
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16/887865
Image processing method and apparatus May 28, 2020 Issued
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17/793618
Intra prediction for image and video compression May 13, 2020 Issued
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16/871919
Efficient multi-view coding using depth-map estimate for a dependent view May 10, 2020 Issued
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16/867161
Personal video recorder May 4, 2020 Issued
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16/863479
Video decoder with reduced dynamic range transform with inverse transform shifting memory Apr 29, 2020 Issued
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16/859968
Method and apparatus for video coding Apr 26, 2020 Issued
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16/854419
Display device, and method and apparatus for adjusting image presence on display device Apr 20, 2020 Issued
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16/852164
Methods, devices and systems for parallel video encoding and decoding Apr 16, 2020 Issued
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16/849763
THERMAL RANGING DEVICES AND METHODS Apr 14, 2020 Abandoned
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16/848297
Multi-view coding with efficient residual handling Apr 13, 2020 Issued
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