EP1887831 - Method, apparatus and program for estimating the direction of a sound source [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 04.04.2014 Database last updated on 15.08.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.04.2014 | No opposition filed within time limit | published on 07.05.2014 [2014/19] | Applicant(s) | For:DE
FR
GB
FUJITSU LIMITED 1-1, Kamikodanaka 4-chome, Nakahara-ku Kawasaki-shi Kanagawa 211-8588 / JP | [2013/22] |
Former [2008/07] | For:DE
FR
GB
FUJITSU LIMITED 1-1, Kamikodanaka 4-chome, Nakahara-ku Kawasaki-shi Kanagawa 211-8588 / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Hayakawa, Shoji, c/o FUJITSU LIMITED / 1-1, Kamikodanaka 4-chome, Nakahara-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 211-8588 / JP | [2013/22] |
Former [2008/07] | 01 /
Hayakawa, Shoji, c/o FUJITSU LIMITED 1-1, Kamikodanaka 4-chome, Nakahara-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 211-8588 / JP | Representative(s) | Stebbing, Timothy Charles Haseltine Lake LLP Lincoln House, 5th Floor 300 High Holborn London WC1V 7JH / GB | [2013/22] |
Former [2008/07] | Stebbing, Timothy Charles Haseltine Lake 5th Floor Lincoln House 300 High Holborn London, WC1V 7JH / GB | Application number, filing date | 07112565.2 | 16.07.2007 | [2008/07] | Priority number, date | JP20060217293 | 09.08.2006 Original published format: JP 2006217293 | JP20070033911 | 14.02.2007 Original published format: JP 2007033911 | [2008/07] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP1887831 | Date: | 13.02.2008 | Language: | EN | [2008/07] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP1887831 | Date: | 21.12.2011 | Language: | EN | [2011/51] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP1887831 | Date: | 29.05.2013 | Language: | EN | [2013/22] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 22.11.2011 | Classification | IPC: | H04R3/00, G10L21/02 | [2011/51] | CPC: |
H04R3/005 (EP,US);
H04R3/00 (KR);
G10L21/0208 (EP,US);
H04R1/40 (KR);
G10L2021/02166 (EP,US)
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Former IPC [2008/07] | H04R3/00 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [2012/35] |
Former [2008/07] | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR | Title | German: | Verfahren, Vorrichtung und Programm zur Schätzung der Richtung einer Schallquelle | [2008/07] | English: | Method, apparatus and program for estimating the direction of a sound source | [2008/07] | French: | Procédé, appareil et programme pour l'estimation de la direction d'une source sonore | [2008/09] |
Former [2008/07] | Procédé, appareil et programme pour estimer la direction d'une source sonore | Examination procedure | 15.06.2012 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 18.06.2012 | Examination requested [2012/31] | 22.06.2012 | Loss of particular rights, legal effect: designated state(s) | 30.07.2012 | Despatch of communication of loss of particular rights: designated state(s) AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DK, EE, ES, FI, GR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, MC, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR | 17.12.2012 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 15.04.2013 | Fee for grant paid | 15.04.2013 | 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 17.12.2012 | Opposition(s) | 03.03.2014 | No opposition filed within time limit [2014/19] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 30.07.2009 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 29.07.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 28.07.2011 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 03.05.2012 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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