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EP About this file: EP0278528

EP0278528 - Area searching system [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  04.04.1996
Database last updated on 02.11.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip04.04.1996No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 22.05.1996 [1996/21]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
NEC Corporation
7-1, Shiba 5-chome Minato-ku
Tokyo 108-8001 / JP
[N/P]
Former [1988/33]For all designated states
NEC CORPORATION
7-1, Shiba 5-chome Minato-ku
Tokyo / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Horiguchi, Ryuji
c/o NEC Corporation 33-1, Shiba 5-chome
Minato-ku Tokyo / JP
[1988/33]
Representative(s)Glawe, Delfs, Moll
Partnerschaft mbB von
Patent- und Rechtsanwälten
Postfach 26 01 62
80058 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [1988/33]Glawe, Delfs, Moll & Partner
Patentanwälte Postfach 26 01 62
D-80058 München / DE
Application number, filing date88102204.015.02.1988
[1988/33]
Priority number, dateJP1987003102513.02.1987         Original published format: JP 3102587
[1988/33]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP0278528
Date:17.08.1988
Language:EN
[1988/33]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP0278528
Date:21.11.1991
Language:EN
[1991/47]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0278528
Date:31.05.1995
Language:EN
[1995/22]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP03.10.1991
ClassificationIPC:G06T11/40
[1995/22]
CPC:
G06T11/40 (EP,US)
Former IPC [1988/33]G06F15/72
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [1988/33]
TitleGerman:Gebietsdurchsuchungssystem[1988/33]
English:Area searching system[1988/33]
French:Système de recherche de zone[1988/33]
Examination procedure15.02.1988Examination requested  [1988/33]
15.06.1993Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
19.10.1993Reply to a communication from the examining division
28.03.1994Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
08.08.1994Communication of intention to grant the patent
08.11.1994Fee for grant paid
08.11.1994Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)01.03.1996No opposition filed within time limit [1996/21]
Fees paidRenewal fee
19.02.1990Renewal fee patent year 03
02.01.1991Renewal fee patent year 04
25.02.1992Renewal fee patent year 05
18.02.1993Renewal fee patent year 06
18.02.1994Renewal fee patent year 07
17.02.1995Renewal fee patent year 08
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Documents cited:Search[A]EP0136929  (THOMSON CSF [FR])
 [A]  - PATTERN RECOGNITION, vol. 17, no. 3, 1984, pages 285-293, Oxford, GB; I. GARGANTINI et al.: "Linear quadtrees: A blocking technique for contour filling"
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