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EP0684702
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| EP0684702 - Vector quantizing apparatus [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 05.09.2003 Database last updated on 19.03.2026 | Most recent event Tooltip | 17.02.2006 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): FR | published on 05.04.2006 [2006/14] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 72, Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku Kawasaki-shi Kanagawa 212-8572 / JP | [N/P] |
| Former [2002/44] | For all designated states KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA 72, Horikawa-cho, Saiwai-ku Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 212-8572 / JP | ||
| Former [1995/48] | For all designated states Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 72, Horikawa-cho Saiwai-ku Kawasaki-shi / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Amada, Tadashi, c/o Intellectual Property Div. K.K. Toshiba, 1-1 Shibaura 1-chome Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 / JP | 02 /
Miseki, Kimio, c/o Intellectual Property Div. K.K. Toshiba, 1-1 Shibaura 1-chome Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 / JP | 03 /
Akamine, Masami, c/o Intellectual Property Div. K.K. Toshiba, 1-1 Shibaura 1-chome Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 / JP | 04 /
Oshikiri, Masahiro, c/o Intellectual Property Div. K.K. Toshiba, 1-1 Shibaura 1-chome Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 / JP | [1995/48] | Representative(s) | Shindler, Nigel Brookes Batchellor LLP 1 Boyne Park Tunbridge Wells Kent TN4 8EL / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [1995/48] | Shindler, Nigel BATCHELLOR, KIRK & CO. 2 Pear Tree Court Farringdon Road London EC1R 0DS / GB | Application number, filing date | 95303564.9 | 25.05.1995 | [1995/48] | Priority number, date | JP19940115465 | 27.05.1994 Original published format: JP 11546594 | JP19940267828 | 31.10.1994 Original published format: JP 26782894 | [1995/48] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0684702 | Date: | 29.11.1995 | Language: | EN | [1995/48] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0684702 | Date: | 23.02.2000 | [2000/08] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0684702 | Date: | 30.10.2002 | Language: | EN | [2002/44] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 11.01.2000 | Classification | IPC: | H03M7/30, G10L11/00 | [2002/44] | CPC: |
H03M7/3082 (EP,US);
H03M7/3002 (KR);
G06T9/008 (EP,US)
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| Former IPC [2000/08] | H03M7/30, G10L3/00 | ||
| Former IPC [1995/48] | H03M7/30 | Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB [1995/48] | Title | German: | Vorrichtung zur Vektorquantifizierung | [1995/48] | English: | Vector quantizing apparatus | [1995/48] | French: | Dispositif de quantification vectorielle | [1995/48] | Examination procedure | 21.06.1995 | Examination requested [1995/48] | 18.12.2000 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 18.06.2001 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 11.07.2001 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 14.01.2002 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 04.03.2002 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 08.05.2002 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 09.08.2002 | Fee for grant paid | 09.08.2002 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 31.07.2003 | No opposition filed within time limit [2003/43] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 12.05.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 11.05.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 12.05.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 15.05.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 14.05.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 14.05.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 08 |
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| Former [2004/22] | GB | 25.05.2003 | Documents cited: | Search | [A] JPS62166655 | [A] ADOUL J -P ET AL: "FAST CELP CODING BASED ON ALGEBRAIC CODES", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH & SIGNAL PROCESSING. ICASSP,US,NEW YORK, IEEE, vol. CONF. 12, 1987, pages 1957-1960, XP000615778 [A] 1,8,12,16,20 * page 1957, column R, line 1 - line 8 * * page 1958, column R, line 22 - line 39 * * figure 1 * | [A] PATENT ABSTRACTS OF JAPAN vol. 012, no. 007 (E - 571) 9 January 1988 (1988-01-09) [A] 1,8,12,16,20 * abstract * |