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EP2486514 - FACE RECOGNITION IN DIGITAL IMAGES [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	The application has been refused Status updated on 10.12.2021 Database last updated on 03.09.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	10.12.2021	Refusal of application	published on 12.01.2022 [2022/02]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Visidon OY Teknologiantie 1 90590 Oulu / FI
	[2012/33]
Inventor(s)	01 / NISKANEN, Matti Viuhkotie 15 FI-90540 Oulu / FI
	02 / TURTINEN, Markus Ojapolku 4 FI-91100 Ii / FI
	03 / HANNUKSELA, Jari Tikkasenkaari 2 FI-91100 Ii / FI
	[2012/33]
Representative(s)	Kolster Oy Ab (Salmisaarenaukio 1) P.O. Box 204 00181 Helsinki / FI
	[N/P]
Former [2013/43]	Kolster Oy Ab Iso Roobertinkatu 23 PO Box 148 00121 Helsinki / FI
Former [2012/33]	Alatossava, Mikko Kolster Oy Ab Iso Roobertinkatu 23 PO Box 148 00121 Helsinki / FI
Application number, filing date	10821621.9	04.10.2010
	WO2010FI50765
Priority number, date	FI20090006046	09.10.2009 Original published format: FI 20096046
	[2012/33]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO2011042601
	Date:	14.04.2011
	Language:	EN
	[2011/15]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP2486514
	Date:	15.08.2012
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 14.04.2011 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2012/33]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	FI	14.04.2011
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	22.03.2013
Classification	IPC:	G06K9/00, G06T9/00	[2012/33]
	CPC:	G06V40/161 (EP,US); G06V40/16 (FI); G06V10/467 (EP,US)
Designated contracting states	AL, 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, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR [2012/33]
Title	German:	GESICHTSERKENNUNG IN DIGITALEN BILDERN	[2012/33]
	English:	FACE RECOGNITION IN DIGITAL IMAGES	[2012/33]
	French:	RECONNAISSANCE DE VISAGES DANS DES IMAGES NUMÉRIQUES	[2012/33]
Entry into regional phase	24.04.2012	National basic fee paid
	24.04.2012	Search fee paid
	24.04.2012	Designation fee(s) paid
	24.04.2012	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	20.06.2011	Request for preliminary examination filed International Preliminary Examining Authority: FI
	24.04.2012	Examination requested [2012/33]
	02.10.2013	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	15.05.2015	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	22.09.2015	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	07.06.2016	Date of oral proceedings
	28.06.2016	Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2022/02]
	28.06.2016	Minutes of oral proceedings despatched
	29.11.2021	Application refused, date of legal effect [2022/02]
Appeal following examination	26.08.2016	Appeal received No. T2548/16
	28.10.2016	Statement of grounds filed
	29.11.2021	Result of appeal procedure: the application was withdrawn
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 15.05.2015
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	15.10.2012	Renewal fee patent year 03
	15.10.2013	Renewal fee patent year 04
	30.12.2014	Renewal fee patent year 05
	12.10.2015	Renewal fee patent year 06
	25.10.2016	Renewal fee patent year 07
	23.10.2017	Renewal fee patent year 08
	22.10.2018	Renewal fee patent year 09
	15.01.2020	Renewal fee patent year 10
	20.10.2020	Renewal fee patent year 11
	21.10.2021	Renewal fee patent year 12
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	Additional fee for renewal fee
	31.10.2014	05 M06 Fee paid on 30.12.2014
	31.10.2019	10 M06 Fee paid on 15.01.2020
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Documents cited:	Search	[A] - HADID A, "The Local Binary Pattern Approach and its Applications to Face Analysis", IMAGE PROCESSING THEORY, TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS, 2008. IPTA 2008. FIRST WORKSHOPS ON, IEEE, PISCATAWAY, NJ, USA, (20081123), ISBN 978-1-4244-3321-6, pages 1 - 9, XP031404066 [A] 1-13 * the whole document *
		[A] - NUTAO TAN ET AL, "Face Recognition Based on a Single Image and Local Binary Pattern", INTELLIGENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION, 2008. IITA '08. SECOND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON, IEEE, PISCATAWAY, NJ, USA, (20081220), ISBN 978-0-7695-3497-8, pages 366 - 370, XP031402366 [A] 1-13 * the whole document *
		[A] - TIMO AHONEN ET AL, Face Recognition with Local Binary Patterns, COMPUTER VISION - ECCV 2004; [LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE;;LNCS], SPRINGER-VERLAG, BERLIN/HEIDELBERG, PAGE(S) 469 - 481, (20040422), ISBN 978-3-540-21984-2, XP019005797 [A] 1-13 * the whole document *
		[AP] - TIAGO F PEREIRA ET AL, Video-Based Face Verification with Local Binary Patterns and SVM Using GMM Supervectors, COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ITS APPLICATIONS ICCSA 2012, SPRINGER BERLIN HEIDELBERG, BERLIN, HEIDELBERG, PAGE(S) 240 - 252, (20120618), ISBN 978-3-642-31124-6, XP047007377 [AP] 1-13 * the whole document *
	International search	[X]US2003165260 (KIM HYUN-WOO [KR], et al);
		[A]US2008166026 (HUANG XIANGSHENG [KR], et al);
		[X] - DENIZ O. ET AL, "Face recognition using independent component analysis and support vector machines", PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS, (200309), vol. 24, no. 13, pages 2153 - 2157, XP008154989 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8655(03)00081-3
		[X] - KIM T.-K. ET AL, "Independent component analysis in a local facial residue space for face recognition", PATTERN RECOGNITION, (200409), vol. 37, no. 9, pages 1873 - 1885, XP008154991 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2004.01.019
		[X] - ZHANG L. ET AL, "Block Independent Component Analysis for Face Recognition", PROC. 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING, 2007 (ICIAP 2007), pages 217 - 222, XP008154990 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICIAP.2007.38
		[X] - CHEN C. ET AL, "Face Recognition Using Modular Independent Component Analysis Directly Based on Image Matrix", PROC. FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL COMPUTATION, 2009 (ICNC '09), (20090814), pages 559 - 562, XP008155577 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICNC.2009.304
		[X] - YANG J. ET AL, "Kernel ICA: An alternative formulation and its application to face recognition", PATTERN RECOGNITION, (200510), vol. 38, no. 10, pages 1784 - 1787, XP008154999 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2005.01.023
		[A] - HEUSCH G. ET AL, "Local Binary Patterns as an Image Preprocessing for Face Authentication", PROC. 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATIC FACE AND GESTURE RECOGNITION, 2006 (FGR 2006), (20060410), pages 9 - 14, XP008155578 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/FGR.2006.72
		[T] - ZHANG B. ET AL, "Local Derivative Pattern Versus Local Binary Pattern: Face Recognition With High-Order Local Pattern Descriptor", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING, (201002), vol. 18, no. 2, pages 533 - 544, XP008155001 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2009.2035882

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