EP3131281 - IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH TEMPORARILY COMPUTER-READABLE IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM HAS BEEN STORED, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 03.07.2020 Database last updated on 20.12.2024 | |
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Former | The international publication has been made Status updated on 09.11.2016 | Most recent event Tooltip | 08.07.2022 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MK | published on 10.08.2022 [2022/32] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states OLYMPUS CORPORATION 2951 Ishikawa-machi Hachioji-shi Tokyo 192-8507 / JP | [2017/07] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
SUZUKI, Hiroshi c/o Olympus Corporation 2951 Ishikawa-machi Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-8507 / JP | [2017/07] | Representative(s) | Gunzelmann, Rainer Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff Patentanwälte und Rechtsanwalt PartG mbB Schweigerstraße 2 81541 München / DE | [N/P] |
Former [2017/07] | Gunzelmann, Rainer Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff Patentanwälte PartG mbB Schweigerstraße 2 81541 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 15776404.4 | 20.02.2015 | [2017/07] | WO2015JP54816 | Priority number, date | JP20140078922 | 07.04.2014 Original published format: JP 2014078922 | [2017/07] | Filing language | JA | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO2015156041 | Date: | 15.10.2015 | Language: | JA | [2015/41] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP3131281 | Date: | 15.02.2017 | Language: | EN | [2017/07] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP3131281 | Date: | 10.07.2019 | Language: | EN | [2019/28] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | JP | 15.10.2015 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 21.03.2018 | Classification | IPC: | H04N5/232, G06T5/00, H04N1/407, G06T5/40 | [2018/03] | CPC: |
G06T5/90 (EP,US);
G06T5/77 (US);
G06T5/00 (US);
G06T5/40 (EP,US);
H04N1/407 (US);
H04N1/4074 (EP,US);
H04N23/60 (EP,US);
G06T2207/10024 (EP,US);
G06T2207/20008 (EP,US);
G06T2207/20012 (EP,US)
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