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EP0989748 - Picture information conversion and video processor [Right-click to bookmark this link]
Status	No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 09.08.2013 Database last updated on 24.08.2024
Most recent event Tooltip	09.08.2013	No opposition filed within time limit	published on 11.09.2013 [2013/37]
Applicant(s)	For all designated states Sony Corporation 6-7-35 Kitashinagawa Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 141 / JP
	[2012/40]
Former [2000/13]	For all designated states SONY CORPORATION 6-7-35 Kitashinagawa Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 141 / JP
Inventor(s)	01 / Kondo, Tetsujiro c/o Sony Corporation 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	02 / Tatehira, Yasushi c/o Sony Corporation 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	03 / Asakura, Nobuyuki c/o Sony Corporation 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	04 / Uchida, Masashi c/o Sony Corporation 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	05 / Morimura, Takuo c/o Sony Corporation 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	06 / Ando, Kazutaka c/o Sony Corporation 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	07 / Nakaya, Hideo c/o Sony Corporation 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	08 / Watanabe, Tsutomu c/o Sony Corporation 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	09 / Inoue, Satoshi c/o Sony Corporation 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	10 / Niitsuma, Wataru c/o Sony Corporation 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	[2012/40]
Former [2000/13]	01 / Kondo, Tetsujiro c/o Sony Corporation, 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	02 / Tatehira, Yasushi c/o Sony Corporation, 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	03 / Asakura, Nobuyuki c/o Sony Corporation, 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	04 / Uchida, Masashi c/o Sony Corporation, 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	05 / Morimura, Takuo c/o Sony Corporation, 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	06 / Ando, Kazutaka c/o Sony Corporation, 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	07 / Nakaya, Hideo c/o Sony Corporation, 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	08 / Watanabe, Tsutomu c/o Sony Corporation, 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	09 / Inoue, Satoshi c/o Sony Corporation, 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
	10 / Niitsuma, Wataru c/o Sony Corporation, 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141 / JP
Representative(s)	Turner, James Arthur, et al D Young & Co LLP 120 Holborn London EC1N 2DY / GB
	[N/P]
Former [2012/40]	Turner, James Arthur, et al D Young & Co LLP 120 Holborn London EC1N 2DY / GB
Former [2007/51]	Turner, James Arthur, et al D Young & Co 120 Holborn London EC1N 2DY / GB
Former [2000/13]	Pratt, Richard Wilson, et al D. Young & Co, 21 New Fetter Lane London EC4A 1DA / GB
Application number, filing date	99306636.4	20.08.1999
	[2000/13]
Priority number, date	JP19980237313	24.08.1998 Original published format: JP 23731398
	[2000/13]
Filing language	EN
Procedural language	EN
Publication	Type:	A2 Application without search report
	No.:	EP0989748
	Date:	29.03.2000
	Language:	EN
	[2000/13]
	Type:	A3 Search report
	No.:	EP0989748
	Date:	12.09.2001
	[2001/37]
	Type:	B1 Patent specification
	No.:	EP0989748
	Date:	03.10.2012
	Language:	EN
	[2012/40]
Search report(s)	(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:	EP	02.08.2001
Classification	IPC:	H04N7/01	[2000/13]
	CPC:	H04N7/0137 (EP,US); H04N7/012 (EP,US); H04N7/0125 (EP,US); H04N7/0135 (EP,US)
Designated contracting states	DE, FR, GB [2002/23]
Former [2000/13]	AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE
Title	German:	Bildinformationsumwandlung und Videoverarbeitungseinheit	[2000/13]
	English:	Picture information conversion and video processor	[2000/13]
	French:	Conversion de données d'images et processeur vidéo	[2000/13]
Examination procedure	27.02.2002	Examination requested [2002/19]
	06.10.2005	Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
	04.05.2006	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
	07.11.2006	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	29.12.2011	Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
	05.03.2012	Reply to a communication from the examining division
	30.04.2012	Communication of intention to grant the patent
	22.08.2012	Fee for grant paid
	22.08.2012	Fee for publishing/printing paid
Divisional application(s)	The date of the Examining Division's first communication in respect of the earliest application for which a communication has been issued is 04.05.2006
Opposition(s)	04.07.2013	No opposition filed within time limit [2013/37]
Fees paid	Renewal fee
	14.08.2001	Renewal fee patent year 03
	14.08.2002	Renewal fee patent year 04
	13.08.2003	Renewal fee patent year 05
	12.08.2004	Renewal fee patent year 06
	12.08.2005	Renewal fee patent year 07
	14.08.2006	Renewal fee patent year 08
	14.08.2007	Renewal fee patent year 09
	31.03.2008	Renewal fee patent year 10
	12.08.2009	Renewal fee patent year 11
	25.08.2010	Renewal fee patent year 12
	24.08.2011	Renewal fee patent year 13
	23.08.2012	Renewal fee patent year 14
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Documents cited:	Search	[XA]JPH0974543 ;
		US5946044 [ ] (KONDO TETSUJIRO [JP], et al) [ ] * the whole document *;
		[XA]JPH08265711 (SONY CORP) [X] 1,9,15 * the whole document * [A] 2,3,10,11,16,17;
		US5966183 [ ] (KONDO TETSUJIRO [JP], et al) [ ] * the whole document *;
		[A]EP0859513 (SONY CORP [JP]) [A] 1,2,7-10,13-16,19,20 * abstract * * page 16, line 51 - page 17, column 3 *
		[XA] - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19970731), vol. 1997, no. 7, & JP09074543 A 19970318 (SONY) [X] 1,9,15 * abstract * [A] 2,10,16
	by applicant	JPH0974543
		US5946044

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