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EP About this file: EP0949823

EP0949823 - Synchronization arrangement for a compressed video signal [Right-click to bookmark this link]
StatusNo opposition filed within time limit
Status updated on  19.08.2005
Database last updated on 24.04.2024
Most recent event   Tooltip19.08.2005No opposition filed within time limitpublished on 05.10.2005  [2005/40]
Applicant(s)For all designated states
RCA Thomson Licensing Corporation
2 Independence Way
Princeton, NJ 08540 / US
[1999/41]
Inventor(s)01 / Zdepski, Joel Walter
Thomson Multimedia, 46 quai Alphonse Le Gallo
92100 Boulogne Billancourt / FR
[1999/41]
Representative(s)Kohrs, Martin, et al
TECHNICOLOR
1-5, rue Jeanne d'Arc
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux / FR
[N/P]
Former [1999/41]Kohrs, Martin, et al
Thomson multimedia 46, quai A. Le Gallo
F-92648 Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex / FR
Application number, filing date99108407.004.05.1994
[1999/41]
Priority number, dateUS1993006092413.05.1993         Original published format: US 60924
[1999/41]
Filing languageEN
Procedural languageEN
PublicationType: A1 Application with search report 
No.:EP0949823
Date:13.10.1999
Language:EN
[1999/41]
Type: B1 Patent specification 
No.:EP0949823
Date:13.10.2004
Language:EN
[2004/42]
Search report(s)(Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on:EP25.08.1999
ClassificationIPC:H04N7/62, H04N7/56, H04N7/24
[1999/41]
CPC:
H04N21/23608 (EP,US); H04N21/242 (EP,KR,US); H04N21/236 (KR);
H04N21/2389 (EP,US); H04N21/43 (KR); H04N21/4302 (EP,US);
H04N21/4305 (EP,US); H04N21/4344 (EP,US); H04N21/4385 (EP,US);
H04N21/8453 (EP,US); H04N21/8547 (EP,US) (-)
Designated contracting statesDE,   ES,   FR,   GB,   IT [1999/41]
TitleGerman:Synchronisierungseinrichtung für ein komprimiertes Videosignal[2004/06]
English:Synchronization arrangement for a compressed video signal[1999/41]
French:Dispositif de synchronisation pour un signal vidéo comprimé[1999/41]
Former [1999/41]Synchronisierungseinrichtung für komprimiertenVideosignale
Examination procedure11.04.2000Examination requested  [2000/30]
30.04.2003Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M06)
07.11.2003Reply to a communication from the examining division
12.02.2004Communication of intention to grant the patent
10.08.2004Fee for grant paid
10.08.2004Fee for publishing/printing paid
Parent application(s)   TooltipEP94106965.0  / EP0624983
Divisional application(s)EP01109625.2  / EP1137286
Opposition(s)14.07.2005No opposition filed within time limit [2005/40]
Fees paidRenewal fee
14.05.1999Renewal fee patent year 03
14.05.1999Renewal fee patent year 04
14.05.1999Renewal fee patent year 05
14.05.1999Renewal fee patent year 06
07.04.2000Renewal fee patent year 07
18.05.2001Renewal fee patent year 08
21.05.2002Renewal fee patent year 09
20.05.2003Renewal fee patent year 10
22.05.2004Renewal fee patent year 11
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Documents cited:Search[Y]WO8400268  (WESTERN ELECTRIC CO [US]) [Y] 1-7 * abstract *;
 [A]GB2177877  (STC PLC, et al);
 [A]US4726019  (ADELMANN HARRY W [US], et al) [A] 1-7 * column 14, line 39 - line 67; figure -; claim - *;
 [Y]EP0488225  (FUJITSU LTD [JP]) [Y] 1-7 * column A; figures 2A,2B,5A,5B; claim - *;
 [A]CA2064320  (NEC CORP [JP]) [A] 1-7 * column W *;
 [PA]GB2261799  (DOWTY COMMUNICATIONS LTD [GB]) [PA] 1-7 * the whole document *;
 [PA]US5274681  (YAMADA HIROKI [JP], et al) [PA] 1-7 * column W *;
 [PA]EP0577329  (AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH [US]) [PA] 1-7 * column W *;
 [A]  - MONTGOMERY, "Techniques for Packet Voice Synchronization", IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, NEW YORK, US, (19831201), vol. sac-1, no. 6, pages 1022 - 1028, XP000563228 [A] 1-7 * page 1025, paragraph III.D - page 1027, paragraph IV.B *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.1983.1146024
 [A]  - LEDUC ET AL., "Universal VBR Videocodecs for ATM Networks in the Belgian Broadband Experiment", SIGNAL PROCESSING IMAGE COMMUNICATION., AMSTERDAM NL, (19910601), vol. 3, no. 2/3, pages 157 - 165, XP000234961 [A] 1-7 * paragraph [0007]; figure 6 *

DOI:   http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0923-5965(91)90007-O
 [A]  - COCHENNEC ET AL., "Asynchronous Time-Division Networks: Terminal Synchronization for Video and Sound Signals", GLOBECOM '85, NEW ORLEANS, US, (19851202), vol. 2, pages 791 - 794, XP002050241 [A] 1-7 * page 793, paragraph 2 - page 794 *
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