Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18615671 | VIDEO CODING WITH GUIDED SEPARATE POST-PROCESSING STEPS | March 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18443186 | Method of Coding and Decoding Images, Coding and Decoding Device and Computer Programs Corresponding Thereto | February 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18423311 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING EFFICIENT DEBLOCKING | January 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18407985 | ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTER-BASED VIDEO OR IMAGE CODING | January 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18405242 | TEMPORAL MOTION VECTOR PREDICTION | January 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18403639 | POST-FILTERING FOR WEIGHTED ANGULAR PREDICTION | January 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18573642 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CODING VIDEO DATA | December 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18545219 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS | December 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18543377 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING MOTION COMPENSATION FOR BI-PREDICTION IN VIDEO CODING | December 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18532808 | EXTENDED LOW-FREQUENCY NON-SEPARABLE TRANSFORM (LFNST) DESIGNS WITH WORST-CASE COMPLEXITY HANDLING | December 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18529337 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVELY BREAKING PREDICTION IN VIDEO CODING | December 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18523025 | Reference Picture Resampling | November 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18515843 | DECODING DEVICE OF FILTERING RECONSTRUCTED VIDEO DATA | November 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18503941 | ENCODER, DECODER, ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING METHOD | November 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18481800 | VIDEO CODING WITH GUIDED SEPARATE POST-PROCESSING STEPS | October 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18477292 | CONCEPT FOR ENHANCING PARALLEL CODING CAPABILITIES | September 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18368848 | METHOD FOR ACCESS UNIT DELIMITER SIGNALING | September 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18237068 | CODING UNIT QUANTIZATION PARAMETERS IN VIDEO CODING | August 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18228037 | SIMPLIFIED BINARY ARITHMETIC CODING ENGINE | July 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18356201 | MULTI-VIEW DISPLAY DEVICE | July 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18329415 | PADDING PROCESS AT UNAVAILABLE SAMPLE LOCATIONS IN ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTERING | June 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18322428 | USING QUANTIZATION GROUPS IN VIDEO CODING | May 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18137457 | INDUSTRIAL CAMERA | April 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18136231 | DOORBELL COMMUNITIES | April 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18249423 | CELL IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | April 2023 | November 2025 | Abandon | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18301737 | VIDEO ENCODING SYSTEM | April 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18295732 | IMAGE PROJECTION METHOD FOR VIRTUAL TOUR | April 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 18192188 | INTRAOCULAR SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING DATA AND POWER OPTICALLY TO AN IMPLANT | March 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18123997 | DISPLAY TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR DISPLAYING, METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | March 2023 | November 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18025983 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | March 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18117252 | POST-FILTERING FOR WEIGHTED ANGULAR PREDICTION | March 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18177297 | Method and Apparatus of Matrix-Based Intra Prediction for Video Coding | March 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18175759 | CONFIGURATION OF OPTICAL SENSOR DEVICES IN VEHICLES BASED ON THERMAL DATA | February 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 33 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18173306 | TRANSFORM BLOCK SIZE RESTRICTION IN VIDEO CODING | February 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 30 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18172188 | Systems and Methods for Encoding Alternative Streams of Video for Use in Adaptive Bitrate Streaming | February 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18103570 | VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BIT STREAM | January 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18155216 | SAMPLE PADDING IN ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTERING | January 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18095479 | DOORBELL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | January 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18074887 | REFERENCE PICTURE RESAMPLING | December 2022 | December 2024 | Abandon | 24 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17994591 | ENCODER, DECODER, ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING METHOD | November 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17994092 | RESTRICTIONS ON IN-LOOP FILTERING | November 2022 | March 2026 | Allow | 40 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17990247 | NUMBER RESTRICTION FOR SUBLAYERS | November 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 23 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17970407 | TEMPLATE-MATCHING BASED ADAPTIVE MOTION VECTOR RESOLUTION BY USING AN ADAPTIVE ORDER OF MOTION VECTOR RESOLUTIONS | October 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17969633 | SELECTING A CODING METHOD FOR SUFFIX VALUES FOR DISPLACEMENT VECTOR DIFFERENCES BASED ON VALUE INTERVALS | October 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17961160 | ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTER-BASED VIDEO OR IMAGE CODING | October 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17959479 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR SIGNALING OF SYNTAX ELEMENTS IN VIDEO CODING | October 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17937938 | CAMERA MODULE FOR VEHICLE | October 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17896382 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS | August 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17819362 | Method and Apparatus for Non-Linear Adaptive Loop Filtering in Video Coding | August 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17880799 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING NEURAL NETWORK BASED DEBLOCKING FILTERING | August 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17760017 | A METHOD, AN APPARATUS AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VIDEO ENCODING AND VIDEO DECODING | August 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17875382 | LOW COMPLEXITY LARGE TRANSFORM | July 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17792205 | ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICES THEREFOR | July 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17858700 | MOTION VECTOR RANGE DERIVATION FOR ENHANCED INTERPOLATION FILTER | July 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17853274 | SIGNALED ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTER WITH MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS IN VIDEO CODING | June 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17848385 | PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD IN LONG-FOCUS SCENARIO AND TERMINAL | June 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17787267 | DECODER, ENCODER AND METHODS FOR MIXING NAL UNITS OF DIFFERENT NAL UNIT TYPES IN VIDEO STREAMS | June 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17843015 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF POSITION DEPENDENT PREDICTION COMBINATION FOR OBLIQUE DIRECTIONAL INTRA PREDICTION | June 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17843549 | PROCESSING OF VIDEO OPERATIONS AS SUBTASKS FOR VIDEO FRAGMENTS | June 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17842995 | TRANSFORMATION METHOD, ENCODER, DECODER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | June 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17787234 | VIDEO DATA STREAM, VIDEO ENCODER, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR A HYPOTHETICAL REFERENCE DECODER AND FOR OUTPUT LAYER SETS | June 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17835647 | USING QUANTIZATION GROUPS IN VIDEO CODING | June 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17727791 | IMAGE AND VIDEO DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM | April 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17716380 | PADDING PROCESS AT UNAVAILABLE SAMPLE LOCATIONS IN ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTERING | April 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 11 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17275824 | VIDEO DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND VIDEO ENCODING METHOD AND DEVICE | April 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 48 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17714318 | ENCODER, A DECODER AND CORRESPONDING METHODS | April 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 46 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17711959 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING PLACEMENT OF LABWARE COMPONENTS | April 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17701303 | SELECTIVE APPLICATION OF SAMPLE PADDING IN ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTERING | March 2022 | October 2022 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17701444 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | March 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 1 | No | No |
| 17694008 | QUANTIZATION PARAMETER OFFSET FOR CHROMA DEBLOCKING FILTERING | March 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 19 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17434657 | APPARATUSES FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE, AND METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE THEREBY | March 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 45 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17678253 | AFFINE MOTION MODEL RESTRICTIONS FOR MEMORY BANDWIDTH REDUCTION OF ENHANCED INTERPOLATION FILTER | February 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 41 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17677400 | TECHNOLOGY TO ACCELERATE SCENE CHANGE DETECTION AND ACHIEVE ADAPTIVE CONTENT DISPLAY | February 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17586116 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING EFFICIENT DEBLOCKING | January 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17585458 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING | January 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17572833 | TRANSFORM BLOCK SIZE RESTRICTION IN VIDEO CODING | January 2022 | November 2022 | Allow | 10 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17570783 | SAMPLE PADDING IN ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTERING | January 2022 | September 2022 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17570175 | TARGETS, FIXTURES, AND WORKFLOWS FOR CALIBRATING AN ENDOSCOPIC CAMERA | January 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17526472 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVELY BREAKING PREDICTION IN VIDEO CODING | November 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17525900 | IMAGE AND VIDEO DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM | November 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17513540 | ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTER-BASED VIDEO OR IMAGE CODING | October 2021 | June 2022 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17479192 | RESTRICTION ON APPLICABILITY OF CROSS COMPONENT MODE | September 2021 | April 2022 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17460992 | METHOD OF CODING AND DECODING IMAGES, CODING AND DECODING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS CORRESPONDING THERETO | August 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17411819 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NON-LINEAR LOOP FILTERING | August 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17432501 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | August 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17399839 | ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTERING FOR VIDEO CODING | August 2021 | October 2022 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17382550 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING DEBLOCKING | July 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17424656 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NON-LINEAR ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTERING IN VIDEO CODING | July 2021 | May 2022 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17378464 | CODEC | July 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17368972 | RESTRICTIONS ON IN-LOOP FILTERING | July 2021 | September 2022 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17367655 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 43 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17416235 | VIDEO STREAM ADAPTIVE FILTERING FOR BITRATE REDUCTION | June 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17326588 | EXTENDED LOW-FREQUENCY NON-SEPARABLE TRANSFORM (LFNST) DESIGNS WITH WORST-CASE COMPLEXITY HANDLING | May 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17327346 | HIGH LEVEL CONTROL OF PDPC AND INTRA REFERENCE SAMPLE FILTERING OF VIDEO CODING | May 2021 | April 2023 | Abandon | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17303067 | HIGH-LEVEL DEBLOCKING FILTER (DBF), ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTER (ALF) AND SAMPLE ADAPTIVE OFFSET (SAO) CONTROL, AND ADAPTATION PARAMETER SET (APS) NUMBER CONSTRAINT IN VIDEO CODING | May 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17317222 | DOORBELL COMMUNITIES | May 2021 | June 2024 | Abandon | 37 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17291980 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR APPLYING DEBLOCKING FILTERS TO RECONSTRUCTED VIDEO DATA | May 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 27 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17233804 | ENCODER, DECODER, ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING METHOD | April 2021 | August 2022 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17217808 | REFERENCE IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, REFERENCE IMAGE DECODING METHOD, REFERENCE IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, AND REFERENCE IMAGE DECODING DEVICE | March 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17214422 | POST-FILTERING FOR WEIGHTED ANGULAR PREDICTION | March 2021 | November 2022 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner BECKER, JOSEPH W.
With a 0.0% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals face significant challenges here.
Filing a Notice of Appeal can sometimes lead to allowance even before the appeal is fully briefed or decided by the PTAB. This occurs when the examiner or their supervisor reconsiders the rejection during the mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) after the appeal is filed.
In this dataset, 20.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is below the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal has limited effectiveness in prompting favorable reconsideration.
⚠ Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.
⚠ Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner BECKER, JOSEPH W works in Art Unit 2483 and has examined 187 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 78.6%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 25 months.
Examiner BECKER, JOSEPH W's allowance rate of 78.6% places them in the 47% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by BECKER, JOSEPH W receive 1.96 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 49% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by BECKER, JOSEPH W is 25 months. This places the examiner in the 79% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +28.8% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by BECKER, JOSEPH W. This interview benefit is in the 77% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews are highly effective with this examiner and should be strongly considered as a prosecution strategy. Per MPEP § 713.10, interviews are available at any time before the Notice of Allowance is mailed or jurisdiction transfers to the PTAB.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 29.7% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 57% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. Consider whether your amendments or new arguments are strong enough to warrant an RCE versus filing a continuation.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 25.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 34% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows below-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. You may need to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 50.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 43% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show below-average success with this examiner. Consider whether your arguments are strong enough to warrant a PAC request.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 63.6% of appeals filed. This is in the 43% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 28.6% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner shows below-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. Be prepared to fully prosecute appeals if filed.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 10.8% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 8% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are rarely granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing a petition, as the Technology Center Director typically upholds this examiner's decisions.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 16% percentile). This examiner rarely makes examiner's amendments compared to other examiners. You should expect to make all necessary claim amendments yourself through formal amendment practice.
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 21% percentile). This examiner rarely issues Quayle actions compared to other examiners. Allowances typically come directly without a separate action for formal matters.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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