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EP2549731 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  16.08.2019
Database last updated on 24.04.2024
FormerThe patent has been granted
Status updated on  07.09.2018
FormerGrant of patent is intended
Status updated on  30.04.2018
Most recent event   Tooltip16.08.2019No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 18.09.2019  [2019/38]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome Ohta-ku
Tokyo 146-8501 / JP
[2013/04]
Inventor(s)01 / Ookuma, Satoshi
c/o CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
3-30-2, Shimomaruko
Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP
 [2013/04]
Representative(s)Hitching, Peter Matthew, et al
Canon Europe Ltd
European Patent Department
3 The Square
Stockley Park
Uxbridge Middlesex UB11 1ET / GB
[2018/41]
Former [2013/04]Keane, David Colman
Canon Europe Ltd
Legal, IP and EPS
3 The Square
Stockley Park
GB-Uxbridge, Middlesex UB11 1ET / GB
Application number, filing date12188566.921.06.2007
[2013/04]
Priority number, dateJP2006017502026.06.2006         Original published format: JP 2006175020
[2013/04]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP2549731
Date:23.01.2013
Language:EN
[2013/04]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP2549731
Date:02.04.2014
Language:EN
[2014/14]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP2549731
Date:10.10.2018
Language:EN
[2018/41]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP28.02.2014
ClassificationIPC:H04N1/00
[2013/04]
CPC:
H04N1/00464 (EP,US); H04N1/46 (KR); H04N1/00244 (EP,US);
H04N2201/0094 (EP,US)
Designated contracting statesDE,   ES,   FR,   GB,   IT,   NL [2018/41]
Former [2013/04]DE,  ES,  FR,  GB,  IT,  NL 
TitleGerman:Bildverarbeitungsvorrichtung, Bildverarbeitungsverfahren und Speichermedium[2013/04]
English:Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium[2013/04]
French:Appareil et procédé de traitement d'image, et support de stockage[2013/04]
Examination procedure17.09.2014Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
02.10.2014Examination requested  [2014/46]
06.05.2015Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
08.09.2015Reply to a communication from the examining division
09.05.2016Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
02.09.2016Reply to a communication from the examining division
22.03.2018Date of oral proceedings
24.04.2018Minutes of oral proceedings despatched
30.04.2018Communication of intention to grant the patent
30.08.2018Fee for grant paid
30.08.2018Fee for publishing/printing paid
30.08.2018Receipt of the translation of the claim(s)
Parent application(s)   TooltipEP07110813.8  / EP1874025
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 (EP20070110813) is  06.10.2010
Opposition(s)11.07.2019No opposition filed within time limit [2019/38]
Fees paidRenewal fee
15.02.2013Renewal fee patent year 03
15.02.2013Renewal fee patent year 04
15.02.2013Renewal fee patent year 05
15.02.2013Renewal fee patent year 06
01.07.2013Renewal fee patent year 07
31.03.2014Renewal fee patent year 08
30.06.2015Renewal fee patent year 09
31.03.2016Renewal fee patent year 10
30.06.2017Renewal fee patent year 11
02.07.2018Renewal fee patent year 12
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Lapses during opposition  TooltipES10.10.2018
IT10.10.2018
NL10.10.2018
[2019/34]
Former [2019/23]ES10.10.2018
NL10.10.2018
Former [2019/17]NL10.10.2018
Documents cited:Search[A]US2002126306  (CHOHSA HIROYUKI [JP], et al) [A] 1-9 * abstract *;
 [A]EP1439684  (RICOH KK [JP]) [A] 1-9 * the whole document *;
 [Y]US6856415  (SIMCHIK ANDREW D [US], et al) [Y] 1-9 * abstract * * column 7, line 10 - line 17 * * column 8, line 3 - line 7 *;
 [A]WO2005114477  (ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING INC [US]) [A] 1-9* abstract *;
 [Y]US2006107212  (LOVAT DAVID J [US], et al) [Y] 1-9 * the whole document *
ExaminationUS2002126306
 US2006056873
by applicantEP0711081
 JP2006085376
 EP1874025
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