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EP2299388 - Apparatus and method for detecting face [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusThe application has been refused
Status updated on  07.10.2022
Database last updated on 23.04.2024
FormerExamination is in progress
Status updated on  28.11.2016
Most recent event   Tooltip07.10.2022Refusal of applicationpublished on 09.11.2022  [2022/45]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
129, Samsung-ro
Yeongtong-gu
Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 443-742 / KR
[2012/39]
Former [2011/12]For all designated states
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
416, Maetan-dong, Yeongtong-gu Suwon-si
Gyeonggi-do 442-742 / KR
Inventor(s)01 / Park, Dong-Ryeol
109-502 Samsung Raemian 1 cha Apt., Haengrim Maeul Gisan-dong, Hwaseong-si
Gyeonggi-do / KR
02 / Kim, Yeon-Ho
201-1601 Sinyeongtong Hyundai 2cha Apt., Banwol-dong, Hwaseong-si
Gyeonggi-do / KR
 [2011/12]
Representative(s)Elkington and Fife LLP
Prospect House
8 Pembroke Road
Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 1XR / GB
[N/P]
Former [2011/12]Greene, Simon Kenneth
Elkington and Fife LLP Prospect House 8 Pembroke Road Sevenoaks
Kent TN13 1XR / GB
Application number, filing date10175480.206.09.2010
[2011/12]
Priority number, dateKR2009008401507.09.2009         Original published format: KR 20090084015
[2011/12]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP2299388
Date:23.03.2011
Language:EN
[2011/12]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP2299388
Date:07.11.2012
Language:EN
[2012/45]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP09.10.2012
ClassificationIPC:G06K9/32, G06T7/00, G06K9/00
[2012/45]
CPC:
G06V40/161 (EP,US); G06T7/40 (KR); G06F18/00 (KR);
H04N7/18 (US)
Former IPC [2011/12]G06K9/32
Designated contracting statesAL,   AT,   BE,   BG,   CH,   CY,   CZ,   DE,   DK,   EE,   ES,   FI,   FR,   GB,   GR,   HR,   HU,   IE,   IS,   IT,   LI,   LT,   LU,   LV,   MC,   MK,   MT,   NL,   NO,   PL,   PT,   RO,   SE,   SI,   SK,   SM,   TR [2011/12]
Extension statesBANot yet paid
MENot yet paid
RSNot yet paid
TitleGerman:Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Gesichtsdetektion[2011/12]
English:Apparatus and method for detecting face[2011/12]
French:Appareil et procédé de détection de visage[2011/12]
Examination procedure07.05.2013Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
07.05.2013Examination requested  [2013/25]
18.07.2016Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04)
25.11.2016Reply to a communication from the examining division
22.03.2018Date of oral proceedings
06.04.2018Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2022/45]
06.04.2018Minutes of oral proceedings despatched
29.09.2022Application refused, date of legal effect [2022/45]
Appeal following examination07.06.2018Appeal received No.  T1629/18
14.06.2018Statement of grounds filed
15.09.2022Result of appeal procedure: appeal of the applicant was rejected
19.09.2022Despatch of the decision of the Board of Appeal
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  18.07.2016
Fees paidRenewal fee
12.09.2012Renewal fee patent year 03
30.09.2013Renewal fee patent year 04
30.09.2014Renewal fee patent year 05
30.09.2015Renewal fee patent year 06
30.09.2016Renewal fee patent year 07
02.10.2017Renewal fee patent year 08
01.10.2018Renewal fee patent year 09
30.09.2019Renewal fee patent year 10
30.09.2020Renewal fee patent year 11
15.09.2021Renewal fee patent year 12
26.08.2022Renewal fee patent year 13
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Documents cited:Search[I]US6658136  (BRUMITT BARRETT L [US]) [I] 1-6 * column 2, line 12 - column 3, line 21 * * abstract *;
 [I]US2006126941  (HIGAKI NOBUO [JP]) [I] 1-6 * paragraph [0026] * * paragraph [0031] - paragraph [0032] * * paragraph [0036] - paragraph [0051] * * paragraph [0239] *;
 [I]  - DAVID BEYMER , KURT KONOLIGE, "Real-Time Tracking of Multiple People Using Continuous Detection", (19990101), URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.46.7987&rep=rep1&type=pdf, (20120926), XP002684338 [I] 1-6 * section 3-5 * * figures 1-8 *
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