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| EP1271405 - Image enhancement using frequency band decomposition [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | The application has been refused Status updated on 25.09.2015 Database last updated on 12.10.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 25.09.2015 | Refusal of application | published on 28.10.2015 [2015/44] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [2003/01] | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Shinbata, Hiroyuki Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, 30-2, Shimomaruko 3-chome Ohta-ku, Tokyo / JP | [2003/01] | Representative(s) | Hitching, Peter Matthew, et al Canon Europe Ltd European Patent Department 3 The Square Stockley Park Uxbridge Middlesex UB11 1ET / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2008/41] | Hitching, Peter Matthew, et al Canon Europe Limited 6 Roundwood Avenue Stockley Park Uxbridge UB11 1JA / GB | ||
| Former [2008/24] | Hitching, Peter Matthew, et al Canon Europe Ltd. European Patent Department 6 Roundwood Avenue Stockley Park Middlesex, Uxbridge UB11 1JA / GB | ||
| Former [2003/01] | Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al BERESFORD & Co. 2-5 Warwick Court, High Holborn London WC1R 5DH / GB | Application number, filing date | 02254208.8 | 17.06.2002 | [2003/01] | Priority number, date | JP20010185456 | 19.06.2001 Original published format: JP 2001185456 | JP20020138875 | 14.05.2002 Original published format: JP 2002138875 | [2003/01] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP1271405 | Date: | 02.01.2003 | Language: | EN | [2003/01] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP1271405 | Date: | 03.12.2003 | [2003/49] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 16.10.2003 | Classification | IPC: | G06T5/00 | [2003/01] | CPC: |
G06T5/10 (EP,US);
G06T5/90 (EP,US);
G06T2207/20064 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT, NL [2004/35] |
| Former [2003/01] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE, TR | Title | German: | Bildverbesserung unter Verwendung einer Frequenzbandzerlegung | [2003/01] | English: | Image enhancement using frequency band decomposition | [2003/01] | French: | Amélioration d'image utilisant une décomposition de bande de fréquence | [2003/01] | Examination procedure | 26.04.2004 | Examination requested [2004/26] | 23.07.2004 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 08.12.2004 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 12.08.2013 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 18.12.2013 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 04.03.2015 | Date of oral proceedings | 16.03.2015 | Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2015/44] | 16.03.2015 | Minutes of oral proceedings despatched | 13.07.2015 | Application refused, date of legal effect [2015/44] | Appeal following examination | 18.05.2015 | Appeal received No. T1557/15 | 13.07.2015 | Result of appeal procedure: appeal of the applicant withdrawn | 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 23.07.2004 | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 21.06.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 20.06.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 30.06.2006 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 02.07.2007 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 13.03.2008 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 30.06.2009 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 31.03.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 30.06.2011 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | 31.03.2012 | Renewal fee patent year 11 | 01.07.2013 | Renewal fee patent year 12 | 31.03.2014 | Renewal fee patent year 13 | 30.06.2015 | Renewal fee patent year 14 |
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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 | [X]US5644662 (VUYLSTEKE PIETER PAUL [BE]) [X] 1-23 * abstract * * column 3, lines 1-6 * * column 4, line 55 - column 5, line 17 * * column 9, line 42 - column 11, line 46 ** figure 3A *; | [X]EP0996090 (PHILIPS CORP INTELLECTUAL PTY [DE], et al) [X] 1-23 * abstract * * column 1, line 1 - column 2, line 11 * * column 3, line 1 - column 4, line 55 * * figures 1,4,5 *; | [X] - ANDREW LAINE, WALTER HUDA, "Enhancement by multiscale nonlinear operators", HANDBOOK OF MEDICAL IMAGING PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS, CHAP. 3, academic press, (2000), pages 33 - 55, XP002255543 [X] 1-23 * page IN * * sections 2.1, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 6 * | [X] - PENG BAO-QUAN ET AL, "Contrast enhancement of radiographs using shift invariant wavelet transform", WUHAN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF NATURAL SCIENCES, MARCH 2000, EDITORIAL DEPT. WUHAN UNIV. J, CHINA, vol. 5, no. 1, ISSN 1007-1202, pages 59 - 62, XP008021591 [X] 1-23 * page INTR * * page 60, paragraph 2.2 - page 61, paragraph 2.3 * |