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EP About this file: EP2348739

EP2348739 - Image information encoding method and encoder, and image information decoding method and decoder [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusThe application has been refused
Status updated on  08.06.2018
Database last updated on 03.08.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip08.06.2018Refusal of applicationpublished on 11.07.2018  [2018/28]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
Sony Corporation
1-7-1 Konan, Minato-ku
Tokyo 108-0075 / JP
[2011/30]
Inventor(s)01 / Sato, Kazushi
c/o Sony Corporation 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku
Tokyo 141-0001 / JP
02 / Sunohara, Osamu
c/o Sony Corporation 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku
Tokyo 141-0001 / JP
03 / Suzuki, Teruhiko
c/o Sony Corporation 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku
Tokyo 141-0001 / JP
04 / Kuhn, Peter
c/o Sony Corporation 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku
Tokyo 141-0001 / JP
05 / Yagasaki, Yoichi
c/o Sony Corporation 7-35, Kitashinagawa 6-chome Shinagawa-ku
Tokyo 141-0001 / JP
 [2011/30]
Representative(s)Beder, Jens
Mitscherlich PartmbB
Patent- und Rechtsanwälte
Karlstraße 7
80333 München / DE
[N/P]
Former [2011/30]Beder, Jens
Mitscherlich & Partner Sonnenstraße 33
80331 München / DE
Application number, filing date11164458.929.11.2002
[2011/30]
Priority number, dateJP2001036786730.11.2001         Original published format: JP 2001367867
[2011/30]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A2 Application without search report 
No.:EP2348739
Date:27.07.2011
Language:EN
[2011/30]
Type: A3 Search report 
No.:EP2348739
Date:24.08.2011
[2011/34]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP27.07.2011
ClassificationIPC:H04N11/04, H04N7/26, H04N5/44, H04N5/14
[2011/30]
CPC:
H04N11/042 (EP,US); H04N11/04 (KR); H04N19/109 (US);
H04N11/046 (EP,US); H04N19/105 (EP,KR,US); H04N19/112 (EP,US);
H04N19/124 (US); H04N19/136 (US); H04N19/139 (EP,US);
H04N19/152 (EP,US); H04N19/16 (EP,US); H04N19/186 (EP,US);
H04N19/36 (US); H04N19/44 (US); H04N19/50 (US);
H04N19/51 (US); H04N19/513 (US); H04N19/523 (EP,US);
H04N19/57 (US); H04N7/01 (US); H04N19/176 (EP,US) (-)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB [2011/30]
TitleGerman:Bildinformationskodierungsverfahren und -kodierer und Bildinformationsdekodierungsverfahren und -dekodierer[2011/30]
English:Image information encoding method and encoder, and image information decoding method and decoder[2011/30]
French:Procédés et dispositifs de codage et de décodage d`information d'image numérique[2011/34]
Former [2011/30]Procédés et dispositifs de codage et de décodage d'image numérique
Examination procedure02.05.2011Examination requested  [2011/30]
24.02.2012Amendment by applicant (claims and/or description)
25.05.2012Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
11.10.2012Reply to a communication from the examining division
27.06.2013Date of oral proceedings
10.10.2013Minutes of oral proceedings despatched
07.11.2013Despatch of communication that the application is refused, reason: substantive examination [2018/28]
30.05.2018Application refused, date of legal effect [2018/28]
Appeal following examination07.01.2014Appeal received No.  T1210/14
26.02.2014Statement of grounds filed
30.05.2018Result of appeal procedure: appeal of the applicant withdrawn
Parent application(s)   TooltipEP02783717.8  / EP1353517
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 (EP20020783717) is  26.04.2010
Fees paidRenewal fee
02.05.2011Renewal fee patent year 03
02.05.2011Renewal fee patent year 04
02.05.2011Renewal fee patent year 05
02.05.2011Renewal fee patent year 06
02.05.2011Renewal fee patent year 07
02.05.2011Renewal fee patent year 08
02.05.2011Renewal fee patent year 09
23.11.2011Renewal fee patent year 10
23.11.2012Renewal fee patent year 11
28.11.2013Renewal fee patent year 12
25.11.2014Renewal fee patent year 13
24.11.2015Renewal fee patent year 14
23.11.2016Renewal fee patent year 15
24.11.2017Renewal fee patent year 16
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Documents cited:Search[A]US5475430  (HAMADA TAKAHIRO [JP], et al) [A] 1-5 * column 4, line 1 - column 7, line 11; figures 2A,3 *;
 [ID]  - "ITU-T RECOMMENDATION H.262, INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/IEC 13818.2 MPEG-2 VIDEO. TRANSMISSION OF NON-TELEPHONE SIGNALS. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - GENERIC CODING OF MOVING PICTURES AND ASSOCIATED AUDIO INFORMATION: VIDEO", ITU-T TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARIZATION SECTOR OF ITU, GENEVA, CH, (19950701), pages 1 - 211, ITU-T TELECOMMUNICATION STANDARIZATION SECTOR OF ITU, GENEVA, CH, XP000198491 [ID] 1-5 * paragraphs [7.6.1] , [ 7.6.3.6] , [ 7.6.3.7] , [ 7.6.4]; figures 7-1, 7-5; tables 7-12 *
 [AD]  - PETER BORGWARDT ET AL, "Core Experiment on Interlaced Video Coding", JOINT VIDEO TEAM (JVT) OF ISO/IEC MPEG & ITU-T VCEG(ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 AND ITU-T SG16 Q6), XX, XX, no. VCEG-N85r1, (20011126), JOINT VIDEO TEAM (JVT) OF ISO/IEC MPEG & ITU-T VCEG(ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 AND ITU-T SG16 Q6), XX, XX, XP030003332 [AD] 1-5 * the whole document *
 [AD]  - GARY SULLIVAN ET AL, "Technical Description of ITU-T VCEG Draft H.26L Algorithm in Response to Video and DCinema CfPs", JOINT VIDEO TEAM (JVT) OF ISO/IEC MPEG & ITU-T VCEG(ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 AND ITU-T SG16 Q6), XX, XX, no. M7512, (20010710), JOINT VIDEO TEAM (JVT) OF ISO/IEC MPEG & ITU-T VCEG(ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 AND ITU-T SG16 Q6), XX, XX, XP030036619 [AD] 1-5 * paragraph [3.7.3] *
 [A]  - "Algorithm proposals", JOINT VIDEO TEAM (JVT) OF ISO/IEC MPEG & ITU-T VCEG(ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 AND ITU-T SG16 Q6), XX, XX, no. AVC-159, (19911218), JOINT VIDEO TEAM (JVT) OF ISO/IEC MPEG & ITU-T VCEG(ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 AND ITU-T SG16 Q6), XX, XX, XP030000151 [A] 1-5 * paragraph [1.2.2]; figures 3-b * * paragraph [10.1.2] *
 [XP]  - SATO K, SUZUKI T, YAGASAKI Y, "Core Experiment of Interlace Chroma Phase Shift", H264, Geneva CH, no. JVT-B116, (20020129), pages 1 - 11, H264, XP040418017 [XP] 1-5 * paragraph [0003] *
 [XP]  - SATO K, SUZUKI T, YAGASAKI Y, "New Interlace Coding Tools", H264, Geneva CH, no. JVT-B068, (20020129), H264, XP040417957 [XP] 1-5 * paragraph [0003] *
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