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EP1989632 - MODEL- BASED DEWARPING METHOD AND APPARATUS [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusThe application has been refused
Status updated on  04.09.2020
Database last updated on 30.09.2024
FormerExamination is in progress
Status updated on  10.11.2017
Most recent event   Tooltip04.09.2020Refusal of applicationpublished on 07.10.2020  [2020/41]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
COMPULINK MANAGEMENT CENTER, INC.
3545 Long Beach Boulevard 110
Long Beach CA 90807 / US
[2008/46]
Inventor(s)01 / WU, Minghui
Room 1328, Building Li Ke No. 1, Department Of Computer Science And Technology, Peking University
Beijing 100871 / CN
02 / LI, Rongfeng
Room 1328, Building Li Ke No.1, Department Of Computer Science And Technology, Peking University
Beijing 100871 / CN
03 / LI, Wenxin
Room 1329, Building Li Ke No.1, Department Of Computer Science And Technology Peking University
Beijing 100871 / CN
04 / HEANEY, Edward, P., Jr.
1838 East 2nd Street Apt. 4
Long Beach, CA 90802 / US
05 / CHAN, Karl
16262 Santa Barbara Lane
Huntington Beach, CA 92649 / US
06 / RAPELJE, Kurt, A.
3738 West 144th Street
Hawthorn, CA 90250 / US
07 / FU, Bin
Room 1328, Building Li Ke No.1 Department of Computer Science and Technology Peking University
Beijing, 100871 / CN
08 / FENG, Bin
1012 176th Avenur, N.E.
Bellevue, WA 98007 / US
 [2009/17]
Former [2008/46]01 / WU, Minghui
Room 1328, Building Li Ke No. 1, Department Of Computer Science And Technology, Peking University
Beijing 100871 / CN
02 / LI, Rongfeng
Room 1328, Building Li Ke No.1, Department Of Computer Science And Technology, Peking University
Beijing 100871 / CN
03 / LI, Wenxin
Room 1329, Building Li Ke No.1, Department Of Computer Science And Technology Peking University
Beijing 100871 / CN
04 / HEANEY, Edward, P., Jr.
1838 East 2nd Street Apt. 4
Long Beach, CA 90802 / US
05 / CHAN, Karl
16262 Santa Barbara Lane
Huntington Beach, CA 92649 / US
06 / RAPELJE, Kurt, A.
3738 West 144th Street
Hawthorn, CA 90250 / US
Representative(s)Weber-Bruls, Dorothée, et al
Jones Day
Nextower
Thurn-und-Taxis-Platz 6
60313 Frankfurt am Main / DE
[N/P]
Former [2008/46]Weber-Quitzau, Martin
Jones Day Prinzregentenstraße 11
D-80538 München / DE
Application number, filing date07752208.402.03.2007
[2008/46]
WO2007US05492
Priority number, dateUS2006036826002.03.2006         Original published format: US 368260
[2008/46]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report
No.:WO2007103251
Date:13.09.2007
Language:EN
[2007/37]
Type: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP1989632
Date:12.11.2008
Language:EN
The application published by WIPO in one of the EPO official languages on 13.09.2007 takes the place of the publication of the European patent application.
[2008/46]
Search report(s)International search report - published on:US02.05.2008
(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP09.04.2015
ClassificationIPC:G06F15/00, H04N1/387, G06K9/20, G06T5/00
[2015/19]
CPC:
G06T5/80 (EP,US); G06V10/30 (KR); G06T3/06 (EP,US);
G06T5/00 (US); G06T5/70 (US); G06T7/13 (EP,US);
G06V30/1444 (EP,US); G06V30/1478 (EP,US); G06V30/414 (US);
H04N1/028 (KR); H04N1/387 (US); G06T2207/30176 (EP,US);
G06V30/10 (EP,US) (-)
Former IPC [2008/46]G06F15/00
Designated contracting statesAT,   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 [2008/46]
TitleGerman:MODELLBASIERTES ENTZERRUNGSVERFAHREN UND -GERÄT[2008/46]
English:MODEL- BASED DEWARPING METHOD AND APPARATUS[2008/46]
French:PROCEDE ET APPAREIL DE SUPPRESSION DE DEFORMATIONS BASES SUR UN MODELE[2008/46]
Entry into regional phase04.09.2008National basic fee paid 
04.09.2008Search fee paid 
04.09.2008Designation fee(s) paid 
04.09.2008Examination fee paid 
Examination procedure28.12.2007Request for preliminary examination filed
International Preliminary Examining Authority: US
04.09.2008Examination requested  [2008/46]
09.11.2015Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
09.11.2017Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
18.05.2018Reply to a communication from the examining division
12.03.2020Date of oral proceedings
24.03.2020Minutes of oral proceedings despatched
27.03.2020Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2020/41]
05.08.2020Application refused, date of legal effect [2020/41]
Appeal following examination05.06.2020Appeal received No.  T1711/20
05.08.2020Result 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  09.11.2017
Fees paidRenewal fee
13.03.2009Renewal fee patent year 03
24.02.2010Renewal fee patent year 04
23.02.2011Renewal fee patent year 05
02.03.2012Renewal fee patent year 06
26.02.2013Renewal fee patent year 07
26.02.2014Renewal fee patent year 08
25.02.2015Renewal fee patent year 09
03.03.2016Renewal fee patent year 10
27.03.2017Renewal fee patent year 11
27.03.2018Renewal fee patent year 12
27.03.2019Renewal fee patent year 13
27.03.2020Renewal fee patent year 14
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Documents cited:Search[X]  - CHRISTOPH H. LAMPERT AND TIM BRAUN AND ADRIAN ULGES AND DANIEL KEYSERS AND THOMAS M. BREUEL, "Oblivious document capture and real-time retrieval", INT'L. WORKSHOP ON CAMERA-BASED DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION, (20050101), XP055071002 [X] 1-13 * sections "Feature validation","Preprocessing", "Image flattening";; figures 3, 6 *
 [A]  - ULGES A ET AL, "Document Image Dewarping using Robust Estimation of Curled Text Lines", EIGHTS INTERNATIONAL PROCEEDINGS ON DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION, IEEE, (20050831), doi:10.1109/ICDAR.2005.90, ISBN 978-0-7695-2420-7, pages 1001 - 1005, XP010878166 [A] 1-13 * Section 2 *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2005.90
 [IP]  - SHIJIAN LU ET AL, "Document Flattening through Grid Modeling and Regularization", 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION, 2006. ICPR 2006., (20060820), ISBN 0-7695-2521-0, pages 971 - 974, XP055166975 [IP] 1-13 * abstract * * section 3.3 *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPR.2006.458
 [A]  - WU C ET AL, "Document Image De-warping for Text/Graphics Recognition", LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE/COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE > (EUROCRYPT )CHES 2008 (LNCS), SPRINGER VERLAG, DE, (20020101), vol. 2396, doi:10.1007/3-540-70659-3_36, ISBN 978-3-540-24128-7, pages 348 - 357, XP007901727 [A] 1-13 * abstract *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-70659-3_36
 [A]  - JIAN LIANG ET AL, "Camera-based analysis of text and documents: a survey", INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION (IJDAR), SPRINGER, BERLIN, DE, (20050701), vol. 7, no. 2-3, doi:10.1007/S10032-004-0138-Z, ISSN 1433-2825, pages 84 - 104, XP019352711 [A] 1-13 * sections 2.4 and 4.2.2 *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10032-004-0138-z
International search[Y]US5097517  (HOLT ARTHUR W [US]);
 [X]US2003128875  (PILU MAURIZIO [GB], et al);
 [X]US2005122399  (SILVERBROOK KIA [AU], et al);
 [A]  - DOERMANN D. ET AL., "Progres in camera-based document image analysis", ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION, 2003. PROCEEDINGS. SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, (20030803), URL: http://www.cse.salford.ac.uk/prima/CDAR2003/Papers/0111_keynote_III_doermann_d.pdf, XP008131055
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