| EP0295464 - Rank-order filter [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 23.02.1995 Database last updated on 07.03.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 07.03.1997 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 23.04.1997 [1997/17] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states POLAROID CORPORATION 549 Technology Square Cambridge Massachusetts 02139 / US | [N/P] |
| Former [1988/51] | For all designated states POLAROID CORPORATION 549 Technology Square Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 / US | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Bagdis, Carol Two Grove Street Natick, MA 01760 / US | 02 /
House, Glenn D. 100 Paine Street Bellingham, MA 02019 / US | 03 /
Reise, Wanda T. 68 Webb Street Lexington, MA 02173 / US | [1988/51] | Representative(s) | Koch, Günther, et al Patentanwälte Wallach, Koch, Dr. Haibach, Feldkamp Postfach 12 11 20 80035 München / DE | [N/P] |
| Former [1994/28] | Koch, Günther, Dipl.-Ing., et al Patentanwälte Wallach, Koch, Dr. Haibach, Feldkamp, Postfach 12 11 20 D-80035 München / DE | ||
| Former [1988/51] | Koch, Günther, Dipl.-Ing. Patentanwälte Wallach, Koch, Dr. Haibach, Feldkamp, Postfach 12 11 20 D-80035 München / DE | Application number, filing date | 88108259.8 | 24.05.1988 | [1988/51] | Priority number, date | US19870061717 | 15.06.1987 Original published format: US 61717 | [1988/51] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0295464 | Date: | 21.12.1988 | Language: | EN | [1988/51] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0295464 | Date: | 07.03.1990 | Language: | EN | [1990/10] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0295464 | Date: | 20.04.1994 | Language: | EN | [1994/16] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 18.01.1990 | Classification | IPC: | H03H17/02 | [1988/51] | CPC: |
H03H17/02 (EP,US);
H03H17/0263 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, NL [1988/51] | Title | German: | Filter n-ten Ranges | [1988/51] | English: | Rank-order filter | [1988/51] | French: | Filtre de n-ième rang | [1988/51] | Examination procedure | 21.08.1990 | Examination requested [1990/42] | 02.09.1993 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 18.10.1993 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 04.01.1994 | Fee for grant paid | 04.01.1994 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 21.01.1995 | No opposition filed within time limit [1995/15] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 10.04.1990 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 15.04.1991 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 09.04.1992 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 19.04.1993 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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| Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Documents cited: | Search | [A] IBM TECHNICAL DISCLOSURE BULLETIN, vol. 25, no. 6, November 1982, pages 2887-2889, New York, US; T.C. CHEN et al.: "Pipelined median generation" [A] | [AD] COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND IMAGE PROCESSING, vol. 17, no. 1, September 1981, pages 71-78, Academic Press, Inc., New York, US; P.-E. DANIELSSON: "Getting the median faster" [AD] | [A] IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING, vol. ASSP-28, no. 4, August 1980, pages 415-421, IEEE, New York, US; E. ATAMAN et al.: "A fast method for real-time median filtering" [A] |