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EP2334083 - Method of coding and decoding motion vector and apparatus thereof, and method of coding and decoding picture signal and apparatus thereof [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 04.07.2014 Database last updated on 03.09.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	30.01.2015	Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): ES	published on 04.03.2015 [2015/10]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Sony Corporation 1-7-1 Konan Minato-ku Tokyo 108-0075 / JP
	[2011/24]
Inventor(s)	01 / Kato, Motoki c/o Sony Corporation 1-7-1 Konan Minato-ku Tokyo 108-0075 / JP
	[2013/35]
Former [2011/24]	01 / Kato, Motoki c/o Sony Corporation 1-7-1 Konan Minato-ku Tokyo 108-0075 / JP
Representative(s)	DeVile, Jonathan Mark D Young & Co LLP 120 Holborn London EC1N 2DY / GB
	[N/P]
Former [2013/35]	DeVile, Jonathan Mark D Young & Co LLP 120 Holborn London EC1N 2DY / GB
Former [2011/24]	DeVile, Jonathan Mark D Young & Co LLP 120 Holborn London EC1N 2DY / GB
Application number, filing date	10012180.5	24.03.1994
	[2011/24]
Priority number, date	JP19930065689	24.03.1993 Original published format: JP 6568993
	JP19930124686	30.04.1993 Original published format: JP 12468693
	[2011/24]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP2334083
	Date:	15.06.2011
	Language:	EN
	[2011/24]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP2334083
	Date:	28.08.2013
	Language:	EN
	[2013/35]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	05.04.2011
Classification	IPC:	H04N7/26, H04N7/36, H04N7/46, H04N7/50, H04N7/54	[2013/25]
	CPC:	H04N7/54 (EP,US); H04N19/43 (KR); H04N19/132 (EP,US); H04N19/176 (EP,US); H04N19/51 (EP,US); H04N19/513 (KR); (+) H04N19/517 (EP,US); H04N19/577 (EP,US); H04N19/61 (EP,US); H04N19/107 (EP,US) (-)
	Former IPC [2011/24]	H04N7/50, H04N7/36
Designated contracting states	AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE [2011/24]
Title	German:	Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Kodierung/Dekodierung von Bewegungsvektoren, und Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Kodierung/Dekodierung von Bildsignalen	[2011/24]
	English:	Method of coding and decoding motion vector and apparatus thereof, and method of coding and decoding picture signal and apparatus thereof	[2011/24]
	French:	Procédé et appareil pour le codage/décodage de vecteurs de mouvement, et procédé et appareil pour le codage/décodage de signaux d'images	[2011/24]
Examination procedure	26.11.2010	Examination requested [2011/24]
	15.12.2011	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	13.04.2012	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	25.07.2012	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	07.09.2012	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	21.12.2012	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	19.06.2013	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	17.07.2013	Fee for grant paid
	17.07.2013	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Parent application(s) Tooltip	EP00204184.6 / EP1098529
	EP94910528.2 / EP0651574
Divisional application(s)	The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued (EP19940910528) is 23.12.1999
Opposition(s)	30.05.2014	No opposition filed within time limit [2014/32]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	26.11.2010	Renewal fee patent year 03
	26.11.2010	Renewal fee patent year 04
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	26.11.2010	Renewal fee patent year 17
	24.03.2011	Renewal fee patent year 18
	23.03.2012	Renewal fee patent year 19
	26.03.2013	Renewal fee patent year 20
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Lapses during opposition Tooltip	BE	28.08.2013
	DK	28.08.2013
	GR	29.11.2013
	GB	23.03.2014
	IE	24.03.2014
	LU	24.03.2014
	ES	25.03.2014
	PT	01.04.2014
	[2015/10]
Former [2014/48]	BE	28.08.2013
	DK	28.08.2013
	GR	29.11.2013
	GB	23.03.2014
	IE	24.03.2014
	LU	24.03.2014
	PT	01.04.2014
Former [2014/37]	BE	28.08.2013
	DK	28.08.2013
	GR	29.11.2013
	GB	23.03.2014
	IE	24.03.2014
	PT	01.04.2014
Former [2014/34]	BE	28.08.2013
	DK	28.08.2013
	GR	29.11.2013
	GB	23.03.2014
	IE	24.03.2014
Former [2014/33]	BE	28.08.2013
	DK	28.08.2013
	GR	29.11.2013
	IE	24.03.2014
Former [2014/21]	BE	28.08.2013
	DK	28.08.2013
	GR	29.11.2013
Former [2014/14]	BE	28.08.2013
	GR	29.11.2013
Former [2014/12]	GR	29.11.2013
Documents cited:	Search	[A]US5175618 (UEDA MOTOHARU [JP], et al) [A] 1-3 * column 3, line 6 - line 44 ** column 7, line 15 - column 8, line 34 *;
		[ID] - "Coded representation of picture and audio information, Test Model 4, Draft Revision 2", ISO-IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG93/225B, (199302), pages 1 - 170, XP002486771 [ID] 1-3 * paragraph [4.3.1 Field-Structure Picture] * * paragarph [5.2.2 Field Motion Compensation] * * paragraph [6.3 Macroblock types in a predicted picture] * * paragraph [6.5 Coded/Not Coded] * * paragraph [8.3 Motion Vectors] *
		[A] - "Coding of moving pictures and associated audio for digital storage media at up to about 1.5 Mbit/s, part 2 Video", ISO/IEC 11172-2 MPEG-1, CD, (19930301), no. 11172-2, XP030001513 [A] 1-3 * paragraph [2-D.6.4.2 Macroblocks in P Pictures] * * paragraph [2-D.6.2.3 Coding of Motion Vectors] *
		[IP] - PARKE I, NILSSON M.E, "Semantics for skipped macroblocks in spatial scalability (BT)", ISO-IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG93/631, (19930707), no. AVC-539, XP030000535 [IP] 1-3 * the whole document *

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