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EP0947937
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| EP0947937 - Image search apparatus and method [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 09.09.2011 Database last updated on 16.07.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 10.02.2012 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): GB | published on 14.03.2012 [2012/11] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | [2010/44] |
| Former [1999/40] | For all designated states CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA 30-2, 3-chome, Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Shiiyama, Hirotaka, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 30-2, 3-chome Shimomaruko, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | [2010/44] |
| Former [1999/40] | 01 /
Shiiyama, Hirotaka, c/o Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 30-2, 3-chome Shimomaruka, Ohta-ku Tokyo / JP | Representative(s) | Hitching, Peter Matthew, et al Canon Europe Ltd European Patent Department 3 The Square Stockley Park Uxbridge Middlesex UB11 1ET / GB | [N/P] |
| Former [2008/41] | Hitching, Peter Matthew, et al Canon Europe Limited 6 Roundwood Avenue Stockley Park Uxbridge UB11 1JA / GB | ||
| Former [2008/24] | Hitching, Peter Matthew, et al Canon Europe Ltd. European Patent Department 6 Roundwood Avenue Stockley Park Middlesex, Uxbridge UB11 1JA / GB | ||
| Former [1999/40] | Beresford, Keith Denis Lewis, et al BERESFORD & Co. High Holborn 2-5 Warwick Court London WC1R 5DJ / GB | Application number, filing date | 99302566.7 | 31.03.1999 | [1999/40] | Priority number, date | JP19980090133 | 02.04.1998 Original published format: JP 9013398 | JP19980121064 | 30.04.1998 Original published format: JP 12106498 | [1999/40] | Filing language | EN | Procedural language | EN | Publication | Type: | A2 Application without search report | No.: | EP0947937 | Date: | 06.10.1999 | Language: | EN | [1999/40] | Type: | A3 Search report | No.: | EP0947937 | Date: | 21.03.2001 | [2001/12] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0947937 | Date: | 03.11.2010 | Language: | EN | [2010/44] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 05.02.2001 | Classification | IPC: | G06F17/30 | [1999/40] | CPC: |
G06F16/5838 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, FR, GB, IT [2001/50] |
| Former [1999/40] | AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, IE, IT, LI, LU, MC, NL, PT, SE | Title | German: | Einrichtung und Verfahren zum Suchen von Bildern | [1999/40] | English: | Image search apparatus and method | [1999/40] | French: | Appareil et méthode de recouvrement d'images | [1999/40] | Examination procedure | 06.08.2001 | Examination requested [2001/40] | 13.12.2006 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 23.04.2007 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 10.12.2009 | Date of oral proceedings | 21.12.2009 | Minutes of oral proceedings despatched | 22.03.2010 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 02.08.2010 | Fee for grant paid | 02.08.2010 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 04.08.2011 | No opposition filed within time limit [2011/41] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 21.03.2001 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 27.03.2002 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 19.03.2003 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 26.03.2004 | Renewal fee patent year 06 | 18.03.2005 | Renewal fee patent year 07 | 31.03.2006 | Renewal fee patent year 08 | 02.04.2007 | Renewal fee patent year 09 | 31.03.2008 | Renewal fee patent year 10 | 31.03.2009 | Renewal fee patent year 11 | 31.03.2010 | Renewal fee patent year 12 |
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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 | 03.11.2010 | FR | 31.03.2011 | GB | 31.03.2011 | [2012/11] |
| Former [2012/06] | IT | 03.11.2010 | |
| FR | 31.03.2011 | ||
| Former [2012/03] | IT | 03.11.2010 | Documents cited: | Search | [A]US5689585 (BLOOMBERG DAN S [US], et al) [A] 1,9-15,17 * column 21, line 38 - column 23, line 37 *; | [PA]EP0866409 (CANON KK [JP]) [PA] 1,38,76* abstract *; | [AX] - SMITH J R ET AL, "Decoding image semantics using composite region templates", PROCEEDINGS. IEEE WORKSHOP ON CONTENT-BASED ACCESS OF IMAGE AND VIDEO LIBRARIES (CAT. NO.98EX173), PROCEEDINGS IEEE WORKSHOP ON CONTENT-BASED ACCESS OF IMAGE AND VIDEO LIBRARIES, SANTA BARBARA, CA, USA, 21 JUNE 1998, 1998, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, IEEE Comput. Soc, USA, ISBN 0-8186-8544-1, pages 9 - 13, XP002158002 [A] 1-3,5,6,8,9,38-40,42,43,45,46,75 * page 10, column L, line 1 - page 12, column R, line 1 * [X] 76-78 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IVL.1998.694467 | [AX] - INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, "AN IMAGE DATABASE SYSTEM WITH FAST IMAGE INDEXING CAPABLITIY BASED ON COLOR HISTOGRAMS", PROCEEDINGS OF THE REGION 10 ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (TENCON),US,NEW YORK, IEEE, (19940822), vol. CONF. 9, ISBN 0-7803-1863-3, pages 407 - 411, XP000529510 [A] 1-3,5,6,8,38-40,42,43,45,75 * page 407, column R, paragraph 2 - page 409, column R, paragraph 5 * [X] 76-78 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TENCON.1994.369269 | by applicant | - "INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS: "AN IMAGE DATABASE SYSTEM WITH FAST IMAGE INDEXING CAPABILITIY BASED ON COLOR HISTOGRAMS", PROCEEDINGS OF THE REGION 10 ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (TENCON),US,NEW YORK, IEEE, (19940822), vol. 9, pages 407 - 411 | - SMITH J R ET AL., "Decoding image semantics using composite region templates", PROCEEDINGS. IEEE WORKSHOP ON CONTENT-BASED ACCESS OF IMAGE AND VIDEO LIBRARIES, (19980621), doi:doi:10.1109/IVL.1998.694467, pages 9 - 13, XP010293859 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IVL.1998.694467 |