EP3186954 - IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 10.09.2021 Database last updated on 31.08.2024 | |
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Former | The international publication has been made Status updated on 14.02.2017 | Most recent event Tooltip | 27.04.2024 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MK | published on 29.05.2024 [2024/22] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Ricoh Company, Ltd. 3-6, Nakamagome 1-chome Ohta-ku Tokyo 143-8555 / JP | [2017/27] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
YASUTOMI, Kei deceased deceased / JP | [2017/27] | Representative(s) | SSM Sandmair Patentanwälte Rechtsanwalt Partnerschaft mbB Joseph-Wild-Straße 20 81829 München / DE | [2020/45] |
Former [2017/27] | Schwabe - Sandmair - Marx Patentanwälte Rechtsanwalt Partnerschaft mbB Joseph-Wild-Straße 20 81829 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 15835759.0 | 19.08.2015 | [2017/27] | WO2015JP04147 | Priority number, date | JP20140170387 | 25.08.2014 Original published format: JP 2014170387 | [2017/27] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | WO2016031189 | Date: | 03.03.2016 | Language: | EN | [2016/09] | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP3186954 | Date: | 05.07.2017 | Language: | EN | The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 03.03.2016 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application. | [2017/27] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP3186954 | Date: | 04.11.2020 | Language: | EN | [2020/45] | Search report(s) | International search report - published on: | JP | 03.03.2016 | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 12.07.2017 | Classification | IPC: | H04N5/232, G06T1/00, H04N1/46, H04N1/60 | [2017/27] | CPC: |
H04N1/6005 (EP,KR,US);
H04N1/6027 (EP,KR,US);
H04N9/646 (EP,KR,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 [2017/27] | Extension states | BA | Not yet paid | ME | Not yet paid | Validation states | MA | Not yet paid | Title | German: | BILDVERARBEITUNGSVORRICHTUNG, BILDVERARBEITUNGSVERFAHREN, AUFZEICHNUNGSMEDIUM UND PROGRAMM | [2017/27] | English: | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM | [2017/27] | French: | APPAREIL DE TRAITEMENT D'IMAGE, PROCÉDÉ DE TRAITEMENT D'IMAGE, SUPPORT D'ENREGISTREMENT, ET PROGRAMME | [2017/27] | Entry into regional phase | 14.02.2017 | National basic fee paid | 14.02.2017 | Search fee paid | 14.02.2017 | Designation fee(s) paid | 14.02.2017 | Examination fee paid | Examination procedure | 14.02.2017 | Examination requested [2017/27] | 14.02.2017 | Date on which the examining division has become responsible | 23.11.2017 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 19.06.2020 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 25.09.2020 | Fee for grant paid | 25.09.2020 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 25.09.2020 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | Opposition(s) | 05.08.2021 | No opposition filed within time limit [2021/41] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 22.08.2017 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 28.08.2018 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 26.08.2019 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 20.08.2020 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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