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EP0720367
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| EP0720367 - Method and apparatus for identifying video fields produced by film sources [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 08.12.2000 Database last updated on 10.05.2025 | Most recent event Tooltip | 08.12.2000 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 24.01.2001 [2001/04] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states THOMSON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS, INC. 10330 North Meridian St. Indianapolis, IN 46206 / US | [1996/27] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Christopher, Todd J. 1402 South Kitley Avenue Indianapolis / US | 02 /
Correa, Carlos Lichtenberger Weg 4 Villingen-Schwenningen / DE | [1996/27] | Representative(s) | Wördemann, Hermes, et al Deutsche Thomson OHG European Patent Operations Karl-Wiechert-Allee 74 30625 Hannover / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1996/27] | Wördemann, Hermes, Dipl.-Ing., et al Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH, Patent Dept., Göttinger Chaussee 76 D-30453 Hannover / DE | Application number, filing date | 95120101.1 | 19.12.1995 | [1996/27] | Priority number, date | US19940366791 | 30.12.1994 Original published format: US 366791 | [1996/27] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0720367 | Date: | 03.07.1996 | Language: | EN | [1996/27] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0720367 | Date: | 19.11.1997 | [1997/47] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0720367 | Date: | 09.02.2000 | Language: | EN | [2000/06] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 27.09.1997 | Classification | IPC: | H04N7/01 | [1996/27] | CPC: |
H04N7/0115 (EP,US);
H04N3/10 (KR)
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, PT [1996/27] | Title | German: | Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Identifizierung von durch Kinofilmquellen erzeugten Videohalbbildern | [1996/27] | English: | Method and apparatus for identifying video fields produced by film sources | [1996/27] | French: | Méthode et appareil d'identification des trames vidéo produites par des sources cinématographiques | [1996/27] | Examination procedure | 05.05.1998 | Examination requested [1998/27] | 16.02.1999 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 03.08.1999 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 20.10.1999 | Fee for grant paid | 20.10.1999 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 10.11.2000 | No opposition filed within time limit [2001/04] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 28.11.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 18.12.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 12.11.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 |
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| Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Documents cited: | Search | [A]EP0542014 (EASTMAN KODAK CO [US]) [A] 1,4,6,9 * column 2, line 41 - column 3, line 45 *; | [A]US5291280 (FAROUDJA YVES C [US], et al) [A] 1-10 * column 3, line 26 - column 4, line 49; figure 3 * * column 8, line 3 - column 11, line 53; figures 8-11 *; | [A]EP0588669 (SONY CORP [JP]) [A] 1-3,6-8 * page 7, line 16 - page 8, line 50; figure 9 *; | [A]US5365273 (CORREA CARLOS [DE], et al) [A] 1-10 * column 1, line 1 - column 2, line 45; figures 1,6 *; | [A]WO9430006 (FAROUDJA Y C [US]) [A] 1-10 * page 2, line 14 - page 3, line 10 * * page 7, line 20 - page 10, line 3 *; | [A] - KOIVUNEN T, "MOTION DETECTION OF AN INTERLACED VIDEO SIGNAL", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS, (19940801), vol. 40, no. 3, pages 753 - 759, XP000471245 [A] 1,6 * page 753, paragraph 2.1 Motion Detector with One Field Memory * DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/30.320867 |