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EP0666546 - Image processing apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Former [1995/32]Image processing apparatus and method
[1999/39]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  01.06.2001
Database last updated on 25.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip01.06.2001No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 18.07.2001 [2001/29]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
[N/P]
Former [1995/32]For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
Inventor(s)01 / Kanno, Akiko, c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
02 / Suzuki, Akio, c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
03 / Umeda, Yoshinobu, c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, 3-chome Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku
Tokyo / JP
[1995/32]
Representative(s)Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
Beresford Crump LLP
16 High Holborn
London WC1V 6BX / GB
[N/P]
Former [1995/32]Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al
BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court High Holborn
London WC1R 5DJ / GB
Application number, filing date95300654.102.02.1995
[1995/32]
Priority number, dateJP1994001274204.02.1994         Original published format: JP 1274294
JP1994006296431.03.1994         Original published format: JP 6296494
[1995/32]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0666546
Date:09.08.1995
Language:EN
[1995/32]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0666546
Date:02.08.2000
Language:EN
[2000/31]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP21.06.1995
ClassificationIPC:G06T11/00, G06T11/60
[1995/32]
CPC:
G06T11/001 (EP,US); G06T11/60 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT [1995/32]
TitleGerman:Bildverarbeitungsgerät[1999/39]
English:Image processing apparatus[1999/39]
French:Appareil de traitement d'images[1999/39]
Former [1995/32]Bildverarbeitungsgerät und -verfahren
Former [1995/32]Image processing apparatus and method
Former [1995/32]Appareil et procédé de traitement d'images
Examination procedure21.12.1995Examination requested  [1996/08]
13.11.1998Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
24.05.1999Reply to a communication from the examining division
15.09.1999Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: No)
21.01.2000Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: later approval)
11.02.2000Communication of intention to grant the patent
13.04.2000Fee for grant paid
13.04.2000Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)03.05.2001No opposition filed within time limit [2001/29]
Fees paidRenewal fee
19.02.1997Renewal fee patent year 03
18.02.1998Renewal fee patent year 04
18.02.1999Renewal fee patent year 05
21.02.2000Renewal fee patent year 06
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Documents cited:Search[X]US5138443  (IKEDA YOSHINORI [JP], et al) [X] 1-21 * column 1, line 50 - line 60 * * column 11, line 58 - column 12, line 14 * * column 26, line 28 - line 39 * * column 29, line 48 - column 30, line 13 * * column 48, line 17 - line 32 * * column 50, line 20 - column 51, line 37 * * Figures 25G, 29A-29D, 46A-46D, 60A-60C, 61A-61F, 76A, 76A. *;
 [A]EP0344976  (CROSFIELD ELECTRONICS LTD [GB]) [A] 1,3,6,10-12,14 * abstract *;
 [A]JPH0321173
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19910411), vol. 15, no. 143, Database accession no. (E - 1054), & JP03021173 A 19910102 (FUJI XEROX CO LTD) [A] 1-5 * abstract *
 [A]  - TRIBUTE A, "UNDA: First of a New Generation of Color Systems.", SEYBOLD REPORT ON PUBLISHING SYSTEMS, USA, (19891009), vol. 19, no. 3, pages 1 - 24 [A] 1-21 * Page 10, paragraph "Page assembly" *
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