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EP About this file: EP0614311

EP0614311 - IIR ghost cancelling system [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  23.06.2000
Database last updated on 30.09.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip23.06.2000No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 09.08.2000 [2000/32]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
RCA Thomson Licensing Corporation
2 Independence Way
Princeton, NJ 08540 / US
[1999/34]
Former [1994/36]For all designated states
RCA Thomson Licensing Corporation
2 Independence Way
Princeton New Jersey 08540 / US
Inventor(s)01 / Dieterich, Charles Benjamin
7 Euclid Avenue
Kingston, NJ 08528 / US
[1994/36]
Representative(s)Hartnack, Wolfgang
Deutsche Thomson OHG
Karl-Wiechert-Allee 1D
30625 Hannover / DE
[N/P]
Former [1997/36]Hartnack, Wolfgang, Dipl.-Ing.
Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH Licensing & Intellectual Property, Göttinger Chaussee 76
30453 Hannover / DE
Former [1994/36]Wördemann, Hermes, Dipl.-Ing.
Thomson Consumer Electronics Sales GmbH Postfach 91 13 45
D-30433 Hannover / DE
Application number, filing date94102883.925.02.1994
[1994/36]
Priority number, dateUS1993002549603.03.1993         Original published format: US 25496
[1994/36]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0614311
Date:07.09.1994
Language:EN
[1994/36]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0614311
Date:25.08.1999
Language:EN
[1999/34]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP01.06.1994
ClassificationIPC:H04N5/21, H03H17/04
[1994/36]
CPC:
H04N5/211 (EP,US); H04N5/21 (KR)
Designated contracting statesDE,   FR,   GB,   IT [1994/36]
TitleGerman:System zur Unterdrückung von Geisterbildern unter Verwendung eines Filters mit unendlicher Impulsantwort[1998/38]
English:IIR ghost cancelling system[1994/36]
French:Système de filtre à réponse impulsionelle infinie pour supprimer les images fantômes[1994/36]
Former [1994/36]Verfahren zur Unterdrückung von Geisterbildern unter Verwendung eines Filters mit unendlicher Impulsantwort
Examination procedure09.02.1995Examination requested  [1995/14]
18.03.1997Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
11.09.1997Reply to a communication from the examining division
29.10.1998Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes)
01.03.1999Communication of intention to grant the patent
08.05.1999Fee for grant paid
08.05.1999Fee for publishing/printing paid
Opposition(s)26.05.2000No opposition filed within time limit [2000/32]
Fees paidRenewal fee
22.02.1996Renewal fee patent year 03
30.01.1997Renewal fee patent year 04
19.02.1998Renewal fee patent year 05
18.02.1999Renewal fee patent year 06
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Documents cited:Search[YA]JPS57185727  ;
 [A]JPS59198020  ;
 [A]US3609568  (JACKSON LELAND BROOKS) [A] 1,3,4,7* column 1, line 33 - line 73 *;
 [YA]WO8907376  (RCA LICENSING CORP [US]) [Y] 1 * page 4, line 30 - page 5, line 10 * * page 6, line 10 - line 20; figure 2 * * page 6, line 36 - page 7, line 26 * * page 10, line 3 - line 27; figure 3 * [A] 7;
 [D]US4864403  (CHAO TZY-HONG [US], et al);
 [A]EP0413460  (TOSHIBA KK [JP]) [A] 1,7 * page 2, line 35 - page 3, line 8 * * page 2, line 19 - line 50; figure 1 *;
 [A]EP0467338  (NEC CORP [JP]) [A] 1,7 * column 3, line 13 - line 36 * * column 4, line 20 - column 7, line 35; figures 1-6 *
 [YA]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19830209), vol. 7, no. 33, Database accession no. (E - 157), & JP57185727 A 19810512 (NIPPON VICTOR K.K.) [Y] 1 * abstract * [A] 3,7
 [A]  - PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN, (19850312), vol. 9, no. 56, Database accession no. (E - 302), & JP59198020 A 19841109 (SONY K.K.) [A] 1,3-5,7 * abstract *
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