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EP2293243 - Image processing apparatus, image capture apparatus, image processing method, and program [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusThe application is deemed to be withdrawn
Status updated on  01.11.2013
Database last updated on 04.11.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip01.11.2013Application deemed to be withdrawnpublished on 04.12.2013  [2013/49]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Sony Corporation
1-7-1 Konan
Minato-ku
Tokyo 108-0075 / JP
[N/P]
Former [2011/10]For all designated states
Sony Corporation
1-7-1 Konan Minato-ku
Tokyo 108-0075 / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Hirasawa, Yasutaka
c/o Sony Corporation 1-7-1 Konan
Minato-Ku, Tokyo / JP
 [2011/10]
Representative(s)Davies, Simon Robert, et al
D Young & Co LLP
120 Holborn
London EC1N 2DY / GB
[N/P]
Former [2013/12]Davies, Simon Robert, et al
D Young & Co LLP 120 Holborn
London, EC1N 2DY / GB
Former [2011/10]Haines, Miles John L.S.
D Young & Co LLP 120 Holborn
London EC1N 2DY / GB
Application number, filing date10168702.807.07.2010
[2011/10]
Priority number, dateJP2009017608529.07.2009         Original published format: JP 2009176085
[2011/10]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP2293243
Date:09.03.2011
Language:EN
[2011/10]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP2293243
Date:04.07.2012
Language:EN
[2012/27]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP05.06.2012
ClassificationIPC:G06T7/00
[2011/10]
CPC:
G06T7/97 (EP,US); G06T2207/10012 (EP,US); G06T2207/20016 (EP,US);
G06T2207/20021 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesAL,   AT,   BE,   BG,   CH,   CY,   CZ,   DE,   DK,   EE,   ES,   FI,   FR,   GB,   GR,   HR,   HU,   IE,   IS,   IT,   LI,   LT,   LU,   LV,   MC,   MK,   MT,   NL,   NO,   PL,   PT,   RO,   SE,   SI,   SK,   SM,   TR [2011/10]
Extension statesBANot yet paid
MENot yet paid
RSNot yet paid
TitleGerman:Bildverarbeitungsvorrichtung, Bilderfassungsvorrichtung, Bildverarbeitungsverfahren und Programm[2011/10]
English:Image processing apparatus, image capture apparatus, image processing method, and program[2011/10]
French:Appareil de traitement d'images, appareil de capture d'images, procédé de traitement d'images et programme[2011/10]
Examination procedure23.07.2010Examination requested  [2011/10]
31.01.2013Communication of intention to grant the patent
11.06.2013Application deemed to be withdrawn, date of legal effect  [2013/49]
17.07.2013Despatch of communication that the application is deemed to be withdrawn, reason: fee for grant / fee for printing not paid in time  [2013/49]
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 is  31.01.2013
Fees paidRenewal fee
23.07.2012Renewal fee patent year 03
Penalty fee
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31.07.201304   M06   Not yet paid
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Documents cited:Search[A]  - LIANG ZHANG, "HIERARCHICAL BLOCK-BASED DISPARITY ESTIMATION USING MEAN ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE AND DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING", ATHENS, GREECE,, (20011011), pages 1 - 6, VISUAL CONTENT REPRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS : VLBV 01, INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON VERY LOW BITRATE VIDEO CODING, URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.19.6945&rep= rep1&type=pdf, (20110921), XP002659573 [A] 1-11 * abstract * * page 1, column l, line 1 - page 3, column r, line 13 *
 [A]  - TZOVARAS D ET AL, "Evaluation of multiresolution block matching techniques for motion and disparity estimation", SIGNAL PROCESSING. IMAGE COMMUNICATION, ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, AMSTERDAM, NL, vol. 6, no. 1, doi:10.1016/0923-5965(94)90046-9, ISSN 0923-5965, (19940301), pages 59 - 67, (19940301), XP024241830 [A] 1-11 * abstract * * page 59, column l, line 1 - page 62, column r, line 27 *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0923-5965(94)90046-9
 [A]  - FALKENHAGEN LUTZ, "Hierarchical Block-Based Disparity Estimation Considering Neighbourhood Constraints", PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SNHC AND 3D IMAGING, Rhodes, Greece, (19970905), page 4PP, XP002675721 [A] 1-10 * abstract * * page 1, column l, line 1 - page 3, column r, line 4 *
 [A]  - G. VAN MEERBERGEN ET AL, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION, (20020101), vol. 47, no. 1/3, doi:10.1023/A:1014562312225, ISSN 0920-5691, pages 275 - 285, XP055026862 [A] 1-11 * abstract * * page 275, column l, line 1 - page 278, column l, line 23 * * page 279, column l, line 25 - page 280, column l, line 17 *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1014562312225
 [A]  - FORSTMANN S ET AL, "Real-Time Stereo by using Dynamic Programming", PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2004 IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION WORKSHOPS (CVPRW'04), (20040627), page 8PP, XP010761974 [A] 1-11 * abstract * * page 1, column l, line 1 - page 2, column l, line l * * page 4, column l, line 1 - column r, line 17 * * figures 1-7 *
by applicantJP2003085566
 JPH07103734
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