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EP0883090
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| EP0883090 - Method for generating photo-realistic animated characters [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 13.10.2006 Database last updated on 21.05.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 07.03.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state | published on 09.04.2008 [2008/15] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states AT&T Corp. 32 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10013-2412 / US | [1998/50] | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Cosatto, Eric J-14 Twin Lights Court Highlands, New Jersey 07732 / US | 02 /
Graf, Hans Peter 24 High Point Road Lincroft, New Jersey 07738 / US | [1998/50] | Representative(s) | Hagmann-Smith, Martin P. Marks & Clerk LLP Fletcher House Heatley Road The Oxford Science Park Oxford OX4 4GE / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2003/22] | Hagmann-Smith, Martin Peter Marks & Clerk, 4220 Nash Court, Oxford Business Park South Oxford, Oxfordshire OX4 2RU / GB | ||
| Former [1998/50] | Asquith, Julian Peter, et al Marks & Clerk, 4220 Nash Court, Oxford Business Park South Oxford OX4 2RU / GB | Application number, filing date | 98304040.3 | 21.05.1998 | [1998/50] | Priority number, date | US19970869531 | 06.06.1997 Original published format: US 869531 | [1998/50] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0883090 | Date: | 09.12.1998 | Language: | EN | [1998/50] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0883090 | Date: | 15.12.1999 | [1999/50] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0883090 | Date: | 07.12.2005 | Language: | EN | [2005/49] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 04.11.1999 | Classification | IPC: | G06T15/70 | [1998/50] | CPC: |
G06T13/40 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [2000/34] |
| Former [1998/50] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Verfahren zum Erstellen von photo-realistischen beweglichen Figuren | [1998/50] | English: | Method for generating photo-realistic animated characters | [1998/50] | French: | Procédé pour generer des personages animés à réalisme photographique | [1998/50] | Examination procedure | 11.05.2000 | Examination requested [2000/27] | 08.04.2002 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 15.08.2002 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 30.09.2002 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 21.03.2003 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 30.09.2003 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M07) | 10.05.2004 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 22.06.2004 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06) | 31.12.2004 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 06.06.2005 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 12.10.2005 | Fee for grant paid | 12.10.2005 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 08.09.2006 | No opposition filed within time limit [2006/46] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 08.05.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 10.05.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 06.05.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 07.05.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 05.05.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 13.05.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 08 |
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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. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | IT | 07.12.2005 | [2008/15] | Documents cited: | Search | [X]WO9617323 (CALIFORNIA INST OF TECHN [US], et al) [X] 1-37 * abstract * * page 4, line 11 - page 8, line 13 * * page 10, line 24 - page 11, line 33 * * page 15, line 14 - line 35 * * page 24, line 26 - line 27 * * page 25, line 32 - line 33 * * page 34, line 5 - line 23 * * page 35, line 17 - line 18 * * page 36, line 28 - line 30 *; | [X]US4841575 (WELSH WILLIAM J [GB], et al) [X] 1-3,8,10-12,14-17,19-21,23,25-31,33,35,36 * abstract * * column 1, line 41 - column 4, line 55 * * column 7, line 29 - column 11, line 43 *; | [A]US5367454 (KAWAMOTO KOUSHI [JP], et al) | [A] - ARAD N ET AL, "IMAGE WARPING BY RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS: APPLICATION TO FACIAL EXPRESSIONS", CVGIP GRAPHICAL MODELS AND IMAGE PROCESSING, (19940301), vol. 56, no. 2, ISSN 1077-3169, pages 161 - 172, XP000440387 |