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EP1696654 - Image processing apparatus and method and storage medium [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 18.01.2013 Database last updated on 24.08.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	30.05.2014	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): LU	published on 02.07.2014 [2014/27]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 3-30-2, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP
	[2012/11]
Former [2006/35]	For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 3-30-2 Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
Inventor(s)	01 / Sakaki, Eihiro Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 3-30-2, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
	02 / Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 3-30-2, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
	[2012/11]
Former [2006/35]	01 / Sakaki, Eihiro, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 3-30-2, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
	02 / Yamazaki, Hiroyuki, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 3-30-2, Shimomaruko Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
Representative(s)	Hitching, Peter Matthew, et al Canon Europe Ltd European Patent Department 3 The Square Stockley Park Uxbridge Middlesex UB11 1ET / GB
	[N/P]
Former [2012/11]	Hitching, Peter Matthew, et al Canon Europe Ltd 3 The Square Stockley Park Uxbridge Middlesex UB11 1ET / GB
Former [2008/33]	Hitching, Peter Matthew, et al Canon Europe Limited 6 Roundwood Avenue Stockley Park Uxbridge UB11 1JA / GB
Former [2006/35]	Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al Beresford & Co., 16 High Holborn London WC1V 6BX / GB
Application number, filing date	06076207.7	14.07.1998
	[2006/35]
Priority number, date	JP19970189743	15.07.1997 Original published format: JP 18974397
	JP19970189744	15.07.1997 Original published format: JP 18974497
	[2006/35]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP1696654
	Date:	30.08.2006
	Language:	EN
	[2006/35]
	Type:	A3 Search report
	No.:	EP1696654
	Date:	11.10.2006
	[2006/41]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP1696654
	Date:	14.03.2012
	Language:	EN
	[2012/11]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	12.09.2006
Classification	IPC:	H04N1/00, H04N1/32	[2006/35]
	CPC:	H04N1/00867 (EP,US); H04N1/00838 (EP,US); H04N1/0087 (EP,US); H04N1/32203 (EP,US); H04N1/32208 (EP,US); H04N1/32256 (EP,US); (+) H04N1/32267 (EP,US); H04N1/32288 (EP,US); H04N1/32299 (EP,US); H04N1/32309 (EP,US); H04N2201/0082 (EP,US); H04N2201/3205 (EP,US); H04N2201/327 (EP,US); H04N2201/3281 (EP,US); H04N2201/3284 (EP,US); Y10S283/901 (EP,US) (-)
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE [2006/35]
Title	German:	Bildverarbeitungsverfahren und -vorrichtung und Speichermedium	[2006/35]
	English:	Image processing apparatus and method and storage medium	[2006/35]
	French:	Procédé et appareil de traitement d'image et support de stockage	[2006/35]
Examination procedure	11.04.2007	Examination requested [2007/22]
	04.09.2007	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	04.09.2007	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	22.04.2008	Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: reply to the communication from the examining division not received in time
	23.05.2008	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	05.08.2009	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	02.02.2010	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	07.10.2011	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	01.02.2012	Fee for grant paid
	01.02.2012	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Parent application(s) Tooltip	EP98305626.8 / EP0892544
Divisional application(s)	EP10182530.5 / EP2276230
	The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued (EP19980305626) is 01.08.2003
Opposition(s)	17.12.2012	No opposition filed within time limit [2013/08]
Request for further processing for:	The application is deemed to be withdrawn due to failure to reply to the examination report
	23.05.2008	Request for further processing filed
	23.05.2008	Full payment received (date of receipt of payment)
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	12.10.2006	Renewal fee patent year 03
	12.10.2006	Renewal fee patent year 04
	12.10.2006	Renewal fee patent year 05
	12.10.2006	Renewal fee patent year 06
	12.10.2006	Renewal fee patent year 07
	12.10.2006	Renewal fee patent year 08
	12.10.2006	Renewal fee patent year 09
	31.07.2007	Renewal fee patent year 10
	13.03.2008	Renewal fee patent year 11
	31.07.2009	Renewal fee patent year 12
	02.08.2010	Renewal fee patent year 13
	01.08.2011	Renewal fee patent year 14
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	AT	14.03.2012
	BE	14.03.2012
	DK	14.03.2012
	FI	14.03.2012
	SE	14.03.2012
	GR	15.06.2012
	IE	14.07.2012
	LU	14.07.2012
	PT	16.07.2012
	CH	31.07.2012
	LI	31.07.2012
	MC	31.07.2012
	[2014/27]
Former [2013/33]	AT	14.03.2012
	BE	14.03.2012
	DK	14.03.2012
	FI	14.03.2012
	SE	14.03.2012
	GR	15.06.2012
	IE	14.07.2012
	PT	16.07.2012
	CH	31.07.2012
	LI	31.07.2012
	MC	31.07.2012
Former [2013/20]	AT	14.03.2012
	BE	14.03.2012
	DK	14.03.2012
	FI	14.03.2012
	SE	14.03.2012
	GR	15.06.2012
	PT	16.07.2012
	CH	31.07.2012
	LI	31.07.2012
	MC	31.07.2012
Former [2013/11]	AT	14.03.2012
	BE	14.03.2012
	DK	14.03.2012
	FI	14.03.2012
	SE	14.03.2012
	GR	15.06.2012
	PT	16.07.2012
	MC	31.07.2012
Former [2013/08]	AT	14.03.2012
	BE	14.03.2012
	DK	14.03.2012
	FI	14.03.2012
	SE	14.03.2012
	GR	15.06.2012
	PT	16.07.2012
Former [2013/07]	AT	14.03.2012
	BE	14.03.2012
	FI	14.03.2012
	SE	14.03.2012
	GR	15.06.2012
	PT	16.07.2012
Former [2013/01]	BE	14.03.2012
	FI	14.03.2012
	SE	14.03.2012
	GR	15.06.2012
	PT	16.07.2012
Former [2012/48]	BE	14.03.2012
	FI	14.03.2012
	SE	14.03.2012
	GR	15.06.2012
Former [2012/46]	BE	14.03.2012
	FI	14.03.2012
	GR	15.06.2012
Former [2012/37]	FI	14.03.2012
	GR	15.06.2012
Former [2012/36]	GR	15.06.2012
Documents cited:	Search	[A]EP0493053 (XEROX CORP [US]) [A] 11* abstract *;
		[A]EP0581317 (INTERACTIVE HOME SYSTEMS [US]) [A] 1,13,14 * abstract *;
		[A]EP0651554 (EASTMAN KODAK CO [US]) [A] 1,13,14 * abstract *;
		[A]US5568550 (UR SHMUEL [IL]) [A] 1,13,14 * abstract *;
		[A] - BENDER W ET AL, "TECHNIQUES FOR DATA HIDING", IBM SYSTEMS JOURNAL,US,IBM CORP. ARMONK, NEW YORK, (19960101), vol. 35, no. 3/04, ISSN 0018-8670, pages 313 - 335, XP000635079 [A] 1,13,14 * page 335, column L, line 12 - line 20 *

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