Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18698020 | METHOD FOR ASCERTAINING AN ARTICULATION ANGLE, PROCESSING UNIT, AND VEHICLE | April 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18611630 | POLARITY DISCRIMINATION DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLE STACKED ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS AND DEVICE | March 2024 | May 2024 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18538489 | IMAGE REGISTRATION METHOD AND MODEL TRAINING METHOD THEREOF | December 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18375187 | Corrective Lighting for Video Inpainting | September 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18465538 | LEAST SIGNIFICANT BIT (LSB) INFORMATION PRESERVED SIGNAL INTERPOLATION WITH LOW BIT RESOLUTION PROCESSORS | September 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18459332 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECONSTRUCTING OBJECTS USING TRANSITIONAL IMAGES | August 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18235020 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POINT CLOUD BASED GRASP PLANNING FRAMEWORK | August 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18366966 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18354097 | Image Analysis Method and Apparatus, Computer Device, and Readable Storage Medium | July 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18261620 | A NON-CONTACT VISUAL MONITORING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A FLEXIBLE PROTECTIVE STRUCTURE AGAINST ROCKFALL DISASTER | July 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18346139 | STEREO VISION-BASED HEIGHT CLEARANCE DETECTION | June 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18344700 | DEPTH ESTIMATION BASED ON EGO-MOTION ESTIMATION AND RESIDUAL FLOW ESTIMATION | June 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18344750 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IMPROVE MULTI-CAMERA MONOCULAR DEPTH ESTIMATION USING POSE AVERAGING | June 2023 | March 2026 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18143524 | PAVEMENT MACROTEXTURE DETERMINATION USING MULTI-VIEW SMARTPHONE IMAGES | May 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18166068 | Layered Scene Decomposition CODEC Method | February 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18149678 | Control Method, Device, Equipment and Storage Medium for Interactive Reproduction of Target Object | January 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18147371 | NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND APPARATUS | December 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18012584 | Image Registration Method and Apparatus, Electronic Apparatus, and Storage Medium | December 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18080959 | REAL-TIME NEURAL LIGHT FIELD ON MOBILE DEVICES | December 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18076140 | DYNAMIC TONE-MAPPING SYSTEM NORMALIZED AROUND REFERENCE WHITE | December 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17996833 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING ISCHEMIA REGION OF THE ORGAN | October 2022 | December 2025 | Abandon | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17896932 | DEVICE MESSAGES PROVIDED IN DISPLAYED IMAGE COMPILATIONS BASED ON USER CONTENT | August 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17895857 | Spatially Preserving Flattening in Deep Learning Neural Networks | August 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17813767 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECONSTRUCTING OBJECTS USING TRANSITIONAL IMAGES | July 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17749754 | REAL-TIME, FINE-RESOLUTION HUMAN INTRA-GAIT PATTERN RECOGNITION BASED ON DEEP LEARNING MODELS | May 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 42 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17746166 | ALCOHOL DETECTOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ALCOHOL DETECTION SYSTEM | May 2022 | May 2025 | Abandon | 36 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17739987 | COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR WOUND TRACKING | May 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17707023 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH VIDEO SEGMENTATION | March 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17656567 | DRIVER MONITORING DEVICE, DRIVER MONITORING METHOD, AND DRIVER MONITORING-USE COMPUTER PROGRAM | March 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17761183 | DISTANCE MEASUREMENT METHOD, DISTANCE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-PROGRAM PRODUCT | March 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17679949 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | February 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17650728 | ENTROPY CODING FOR NEURAL-BASED MEDIA COMPRESSION | February 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17666649 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | February 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17649960 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PANOPTIC SEGMENTATION OF IMAGES FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING | February 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17563146 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE CREATION USING GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS | December 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17558923 | System and Method with Visual Concept Framework for Self-Supervised Semantic Segmentation | December 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17645116 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR LOCALISED SMOKE REMOVAL AND COLOR RESTORATION OF REAL-TIME VIDEO | December 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17550042 | SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO (SNR) IDENTIFICATION WITHIN A SCENE | December 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17547269 | MOVEMENT DIRECTION DETERMINATION SYSTEM AND OBJECT VOLUME COMPUTATION SYSTEM | December 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17543411 | EXPOSURE CORRECTION FOR MACHINE VISION CAMERAS | December 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17520077 | CAM-BASED WEAKLY SUPERVISED LEARNING OBJECT LOCALIZATION DEVICE AND METHOD | November 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17604837 | CAMERA PARAMETER ESTIMATION APPARATUS, CAMERA PARAMETER ESTIMATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | October 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17451252 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING A QUALITY OF DIGITAL IMAGES | October 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17483635 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO SYNTHESIZE SIX DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM VIEWS FROM SPARSE RGB-DEPTH INPUTS | September 2021 | September 2025 | Allow | 48 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17442075 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | September 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17441276 | PERCEPTION UNCERTAINTY | September 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17471223 | TRACKING SYSTEM AND TRACKING METHOD FOR WATER-SURFACE OBJECTS, AND MARINE VESSEL INCLUDING TRACKING SYSTEM FOR WATER-SURFACE OBJECTS | September 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17437836 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM | September 2021 | June 2025 | Allow | 46 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17459353 | Re-Noising and Neural Network Based Image Enhancement | August 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17407073 | SCENE REPRESENTATION USING IMAGE PROCESSING | August 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17430679 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING SURFACES IN MEASUREMENT DATA | August 2021 | August 2024 | Abandon | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17399433 | GROUND ENGAGING TOOL WEAR AND LOSS DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | August 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17393104 | METHOD FOR MONITORING AN IMMERSION FLUID IN A MICROSCOPE | August 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17444153 | HOLISTIC CAMERA CALIBRATION SYSTEM FROM SPARSE OPTICAL FLOW | July 2021 | August 2024 | Abandon | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17385358 | SELF-OCCLUSION MASKS TO IMPROVE SELF-SUPERVISED MONOCULAR DEPTH ESTIMATION IN MULTI-CAMERA SETTINGS | July 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17425028 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE NORMALIZATION | July 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17377684 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IMPROVE MULTI-CAMERA MONOCULAR DEPTH ESTIMATION USING POSE AVERAGING | July 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17373400 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING THE MOVEMENT OF A TARGET USING A UNIVERSAL DEFORMATION MODEL FOR ANATOMIC TISSUE | July 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17365249 | Method For Camouflaging Tonal Imperfections | July 2021 | March 2025 | Abandon | 45 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17362645 | IMAGE ROTATION FOR STREAM OF INPUT IMAGES | June 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17361009 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | June 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17352291 | Method and Apparatus for Objective Assessment of Gastrointestinal Conditions based on Images Captured in the GI Tract | June 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17343017 | IMAGE REGISTRATION METHOD AND MODEL TRAINING METHOD THEREOF | June 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17343575 | NORMALIZATION OF FACIAL IMAGES USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS | June 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17298421 | METHOD FOR MANAGING IMMERSION LEVEL AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUPPORTING SAME | May 2021 | August 2024 | Abandon | 38 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17297381 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, MOBILE-OBJECT CONTROL APPARATUS, AND MOBILE OBJECT | May 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 43 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17328033 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CONFIGURED TO PERFORM EDGE PRESERVING SMOOTHING AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF | May 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17326630 | OBJECT RE-IDENTIFICATION DURING IMAGE TRACKING | May 2021 | April 2023 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17295493 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING DIGITAL ROCK | May 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17314929 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING COMPUTER VISION TO PICK UP SMALL OBJECTS | May 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17292283 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE STORAGE CONTROL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | May 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 46 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17287851 | POSITION DETECTION APPARATUS, POSITION DETECTION SYSTEM, REMOTE CONTROL APPARATUS, REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM, POSITION DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | April 2021 | April 2023 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17235237 | TARGET TRACKING METHOD, DEVICE, MEDIUM AND APPARATUS | April 2021 | April 2023 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17230941 | DEPTH ESTIMATION BASED ON EGO-MOTION ESTIMATION AND RESIDUAL FLOW ESTIMATION | April 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17221063 | MAP SEGMENTATION METHOD AND DEVICE, MOTION ESTIMATION METHOD, AND DEVICE TERMINAL | April 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17218333 | WATER TEMPERATURE EVALUATION METHOD USING IMAGE RECOGNITION IN A LAUNDRY APPLIANCE | March 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17214813 | System and Method of Image Stitching using Robust Camera Pose Estimation | March 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17211953 | Electronic Component Evaluation Method, Electronic Component Evaluation Device, And Electronic Component Evaluation Program | March 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17203315 | TRACKING SPARSE OBJECTS AND PEOPLE IN LARGE SCALE ENVIRONMENTS | March 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17201660 | TRANSFORM MATRIX LEARNING FOR MULTI-SENSOR IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICES | March 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17201051 | PAVEMENT MACROTEXTURE DETERMINATION USING MULTI-VIEW SMARTPHONE IMAGES | March 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17199006 | SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD OF PROCESSING IMAGES | March 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17196581 | CORRECTIVE LIGHTING FOR VIDEO INPAINTING | March 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17193851 | USER IDENTIFICATION IN STORE ENVIRONMENTS | March 2021 | March 2023 | Abandon | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17185556 | LAYERED SCENE DECOMPOSITION CODEC SYSTEM AND METHODS | February 2021 | November 2022 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17271026 | SPACE ALLOCATION SYSTEMS FOR ALLOCATING SPACE TO OBJECTS WITH MULTI-VARIATE CHARACTERISTICS, AND METHODS THEREOF | February 2021 | October 2022 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17171544 | COLLABORATIVE 3D MAPPING AND SURFACE REGISTRATION | February 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17167433 | METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH MOVING OBJECT DETECTION | February 2021 | July 2022 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17265837 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | February 2021 | September 2022 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17166990 | HIGH RESOLUTION TIME-OF-FLIGHT DEPTH IMAGING | February 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17165708 | ORBITTING SATELLITES WITH AUTOMATED ACCURACY FOR ORTHORECTIFIED MOSAICS | February 2021 | November 2022 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17162863 | DATA PROCESSING | January 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17158113 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM CODE | January 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17124367 | CONTEXT AWARE WORD CLOUD FOR CONTEXT ORIENTED DYNAMIC ACTIONS | December 2020 | August 2024 | Allow | 44 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17119347 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND TERMINAL DEVICE | December 2020 | February 2024 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17115996 | METHOD FOR TRANSLATING IMAGE, METHOD FOR TRAINING IMAGE TRANSLATION MODEL | December 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17107437 | IMAGE SEGMENTION VIA EFFICIENT SEMIDEFINATE-PROGRAMMING BASED INFERENCE FOR BINARY AND MULTI-CLASS MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS | November 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17106102 | METHOD FOR CREATING A HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGE, DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND OPTICAL OBSERVATION APPARATUS | November 2020 | October 2022 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17100628 | Computer-implemented method for segmenting measurement data from a measurement of an object | November 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16953029 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR COLOR MEASUREMENT OF A SURFACE | November 2020 | June 2023 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
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Examiner CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN works in Art Unit 2669 and has examined 120 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 90.0%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 25 months.
Examiner CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN's allowance rate of 90.0% places them in the 73% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN receive 1.12 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 12% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues significantly fewer office actions than most examiners.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN 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 +10.6% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by CHANG, DANIEL CHEOLJIN. This interview benefit is in the 44% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 37.8% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 87% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. If you receive a final rejection, filing an RCE with substantive amendments or arguments has a strong likelihood of success.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 52.9% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 79% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner is highly receptive to after-final amendments compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 714.12, after-final amendments may be entered "under justifiable circumstances." Consider filing after-final amendments with a clear showing of allowability rather than immediately filing an RCE, as this examiner frequently enters such amendments.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 61.5% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 66% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show above-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Petitionable matters include restriction requirements (MPEP § 1002.02(c)(2)) and various procedural issues.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 22% 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 1.9% of allowed cases (in the 67% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions more often than average when claims are allowable but formal matters remain (MPEP § 714.14).
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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