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EP3854097 - METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POINT CLOUD COMPRESSION [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	Examination is in progress Status updated on 18.01.2024 Database last updated on 11.09.2024
Former	Request for examination was made Status updated on 25.06.2021
Former	The international publication has been made Status updated on 11.09.2020
Most recent event Tooltip	06.05.2024	New entry: Reply to examination report
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Tencent America LLC 2747 Park Boulevard Palo Alto, CA 94306 / US
	[2021/30]
Inventor(s)	01 / VOSOUGHI, Arash c/o Tencent America LLC 2747 Park Boulevard Palo Alto, California 94306 / US
	02 / YEA, Sehoon c/o Tencent America LLC 2747 Park Boulevard Palo Alto, California 94306 / US
	03 / LIU, Shan c/o Tencent America LLC 2747 Park Boulevard Palo Alto, California 94306 / US
	[2021/30]
Representative(s)	Gunzelmann, Rainer Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff Patentanwälte und Rechtsanwalt PartG mbB Schweigerstraße 2 81541 München / DE
	[N/P]
Former [2021/30]	Gunzelmann, Rainer Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff Patentanwälte PartG mbB Schweigerstraße 2 81541 München / DE
Application number, filing date	20767107.4	28.02.2020
	[2021/30]
	WO2020US20474
Priority number, date	US201962812964P	01.03.2019 Original published format: US 201962812964 P
	US202016803619	27.02.2020 Original published format: US202016803619
	[2021/30]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	WO2020180721
	Date:	10.09.2020
	Language:	EN
	[2020/37]
	Type:	A1 Application with search report
	No.:	EP3854097
	Date:	28.07.2021
	Language:	EN
	The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 10.09.2020 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
	[2021/30]
Search report(s)	International search report - published on:	US	10.09.2020
	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	18.10.2021
Classification	IPC:	H04N19/61, H04N19/136, H04N19/91, H04N19/176, G06T7/50, G06T3/40, G06T9/00, H04N19/597, H04N19/54	[2021/46]
	CPC:	H04N19/117 (EP); H04N13/161 (EP,US); G06T9/001 (EP); H04N19/137 (EP); H04N19/14 (EP); H04N19/17 (EP); (+) H04N19/54 (EP,US); H04N19/597 (EP); H04N13/128 (EP); H04N13/178 (EP) (-)
	Former IPC [2021/30]	H04N19/61, H04N19/136, H04N19/91, H04N19/176, G06T7/50, G06T3/40
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 [2021/30]
Title	German:	VERFAHREN UND VORRICHTUNG FÜR PUNKTWOLKENKOMPRESSION	[2021/30]
	English:	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POINT CLOUD COMPRESSION	[2021/30]
	French:	PROCÉDÉ ET APPAREIL POUR LA COMPRESSION D'UN NUAGE DE POINTS	[2021/30]
Entry into regional phase	23.04.2021	National basic fee paid
	23.04.2021	Search fee paid
	23.04.2021	Designation fee(s) paid
	23.04.2021	Examination fee paid
Examination procedure	23.04.2021	Examination requested [2021/30]
	02.03.2022	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	17.01.2024	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	06.05.2024	Reply to a communication from the examining division
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	17.02.2022	Renewal fee patent year 03
	15.02.2023	Renewal fee patent year 04
	23.02.2024	Renewal fee patent year 05
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Documents cited:	Search	[I] - ANONYMOUS, "V-PCC Codec description", vol. ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, no. N18017; n18017, (20190109), pages 1 - 32, 124. MPEG MEETING; 20181008 - 20181012; MACAO; (MOTION PICTURE EXPERT GROUP OR ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11), ISO/IEC, CH, URL: http://phenix.int-evry.fr/mpeg/doc_end_user/documents/124_Macao/wg11/w18017.zip w18017_VPCC_TMv4_AlgorithmDescription_v1.docx, (20190109), XP030215594 [I] 1,8,15 * the whole document *
		[I] - HOSSEIN NAJAF-ZADEH ET AL, "[V-PCC] Report on Core Experiment CE 2.17 on complexity reduction of geometry smoothing in TMC2", no. m44933, (20181003), 124. MPEG MEETING; 20181008 - 20181012; MACAO; (MOTION PICTURE EXPERT GROUP OR ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11),, URL: http://phenix.int-evry.fr/mpeg/doc_end_user/documents/124_Macao/wg11/m44933-v1-m44933_CE2.17_Samsung_GeoSmooth.zip m44933_CE2.17_GeoSmoothing_v1.docx, (20181003), XP030192176 [I] 1-15 * the whole document *
		[I] - HOSSEIN NAJAF-ZADEH ET AL, "[V-PCC] Report on Core Experiment CE 2.17 on color pre-smoothing", no. m44932, (20181003), 124. MPEG MEETING; 20181008 - 20181012; MACAO; (MOTION PICTURE EXPERT GROUP OR ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11),, URL: http://phenix.int-evry.fr/mpeg/doc_end_user/documents/124_Macao/wg11/m44932-v1-m44932_CE2.17_Samsung_ColorPreSmooth.zip m44932_CE2.17_ColorPreSmoothing_v3.docx, (20181003), XP030192175 [I] 8-14 * the whole document *
		[IP] - ARASH VOSOUGHI ET AL, "[V-PCC] [New proposal] Selective geometry smoothing inside patches", no. m47799, (20190326), 126. MPEG MEETING; 20190325 - 20190329; GENEVA; (MOTION PICTURE EXPERT GROUP OR ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11),, URL: http://phenix.int-evry.fr/mpeg/doc_end_user/documents/126_Geneva/wg11/m47799-v2-m47799.zip m47799.docx, (20190326), XP030212079 [IP] 1-15 * the whole document *
		[A] - OHJI NAKAGAMI (SONY), "PCC TMC2 low complexity geometry smoothing", no. m43501, (20180711), 123. MPEG MEETING; 20180716 - 20180720; LJUBLJANA; (MOTION PICTURE EXPERT GROUP OR ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11),, URL: http://phenix.int-evry.fr/mpeg/doc_end_user/documents/123_Ljubljana/wg11/m43501-v1-m43501.zip m43501_TMC2smoothing.docx, (20180711), XP030196754 [A] 1-15
	International search	[A]US2017347120 (CHOU PHILIP A [US], et al) [A] 1-20 * ; entire document. *;
		[A]WO2019013430 (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD [KR]) [A] 1-20 * ; entire document. *;
		[A]WO2019034807 (NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY [FI]) [A] 1-20 * ; entire document. *;
		[EX]US10607373 (MAMMOU KHALED [CA], et al) [EX] 1-20* ; entire document. *
	by applicant	- "V-PCC Codec description", 124. MPEG MEETING; 20181008 - 20181012, (20190109), vol. ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, no. N18017, pages 1 - 32
		- HOSSEIN NAJAF-ZADEH et al., "V-PCC] Report on Core Experiment CE 2.17 on complexity reduction of geometry smoothing in TMC2", 124. MPEG MEETING; 20181008 - 20181012; MACAO, (20181003), no. m44933, XP030192176
		- HOSSEIN NAJAF-ZADEH et al., "V-PCC] Report on Core Experiment CE 2.17 on color pre-smoothing", 124. MPEG MEETING; 20181008 - 20181012; MACAO, no. m44932

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