EP2037668 - Image sensor apparatus and method for improved dynamic range with multiple readout circuit paths [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 05.12.2019 Database last updated on 07.06.2024 | |
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Former | Grant of patent is intended Status updated on 16.09.2018 | Most recent event Tooltip | 23.07.2021 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): MT | published on 25.08.2021 [2021/34] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states OmniVision Technologies, Inc. 4275 Burton Drive Santa Clara, CA 95054 / US | [2018/47] |
Former [2009/12] | For all designated states OmniVision Technologies, Inc. 1341 Orleans Drive Sunnyvale California 94089 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Dai, Tiejun 655 S. Fairoaks Avenue, B106 Sunnyvale, California 94086 / US | [2009/12] | Representative(s) | Mewburn Ellis LLP Aurora Building Counterslip Bristol BS1 6BX / GB | [N/P] |
Former [2019/04] | Mewburn Ellis LLP City Tower 40 Basinghall Street London EC2V 5DE / GB | ||
Former [2009/12] | Hackney, Nigel John, et al Mewburn Ellis LLP 33 Gutter Lane London EC2V 8AS / GB | Application number, filing date | 08252987.6 | 10.09.2008 | [2009/12] | Priority number, date | US20070856014 | 14.09.2007 Original published format: US 856014 | [2009/12] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP2037668 | Date: | 18.03.2009 | Language: | EN | [2009/12] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP2037668 | Date: | 18.04.2012 | Language: | EN | [2012/16] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP2037668 | Date: | 23.01.2019 | Language: | EN | [2019/04] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 15.03.2012 | Classification | IPC: | H04N5/378, H04N5/355, H04N5/235 | [2018/40] | CPC: |
H04N23/70 (EP,US);
H04N23/741 (EP,US);
H04N25/57 (EP,US)
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Former IPC [2009/12] | H04N3/15, H04N5/235 | Designated contracting states | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR [2019/04] |
Former [2009/12] | AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LI, LT, LU, LV, MC, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK, TR | Title | German: | Bildsensorvorrichtung und Verfahren für den verbesserten dynamischen Bereich mit mehreren Leseschaltungspfaden | [2009/12] | English: | Image sensor apparatus and method for improved dynamic range with multiple readout circuit paths | [2009/12] | French: | Appareil à capteur d'images et procédé pour améliorer la plage dynamique avec de multiples voies de circuit de lecture | [2018/40] |
Former [2009/12] | Appareil à capteur d'images et procédé pour améliorer la plage dynamique de multiples trajectoires de circuit de lecture | Examination procedure | 21.09.2012 | Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description) | 21.09.2012 | Examination requested [2012/44] | 17.09.2018 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 13.12.2018 | Fee for grant paid | 13.12.2018 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | 13.12.2018 | Receipt of the translation of the claim(s) | 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 17.09.2018 | Opposition(s) | 24.10.2019 | No opposition filed within time limit [2020/01] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 27.09.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 22.09.2011 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 25.09.2012 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 09.09.2013 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 08.09.2014 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 08.09.2015 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 01.12.2016 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 25.09.2017 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | 12.10.2018 | Renewal fee patent year 11 | Penalty fee | Additional fee for renewal fee | 30.09.2016 | 09   M06   Fee paid on   01.12.2016 | 30.09.2018 | 11   M06   Fee paid on   12.10.2018 |
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Former [2019/30] | NL | 23.01.2019 | Documents cited: | Search | [Y]EP0379586 (FUJITSU LTD [JP]); | [XI]JP2002232291 (RINIASERU DESIGN KK); | [XYI]US2007046795 (YAMASHITA YUICHIRO [JP]) | by applicant | EP0379588 | US6128039 | JP2002232291 | US2007046795 |