Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17139465 | Reducing a Hole-In-Active-Area Size for Flexible Displays | December 2020 | May 2022 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17250307 | IMAGING ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING IMAGING ELEMENT | December 2020 | June 2022 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17139920 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC RANGE COMPRESSION IN MULTI-FRAME PROCESSING | December 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17139002 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD, AND MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | December 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17257410 | COMPARATOR AND IMAGING DEVICE | December 2020 | April 2022 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17138954 | DOUBLE BARRELS LENS, LENS MODULE AND ASSEMBLING METHOD THEREFOR | December 2020 | March 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17137505 | VIBRATION DEVICE AND IMAGING UNIT INCLUDING VIBRATION DEVICE | December 2020 | June 2022 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17137504 | VIBRATION DEVICE AND IMAGING UNIT INCLUDING VIBRATION DEVICE | December 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17137503 | VIBRATION DEVICE AND IMAGING UNIT INCLUDING VIBRATION DEVICE | December 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17138537 | TIME OF FLIGHT DEPTH SYSTEM INCLUDING AN ILLUMINATION SOURCE WITH ADDRESSABLE ILLUMINATION BLOCKS | December 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17138490 | PREVIEW-IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND TERMINAL DEVICE | December 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17137860 | HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGE SENSORS | December 2020 | June 2022 | Abandon | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17136538 | DUAL APERTURE ZOOM CAMERA WITH VIDEO SUPPORT AND SWITCHING / NON-SWITCHING DYNAMIC CONTROL | December 2020 | January 2022 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17134761 | IMAGE SENSORS WITH HYBRID ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER ARCHITECTURE | December 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17135958 | MOBILE TERMINAL | December 2020 | January 2022 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17133699 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | December 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17133719 | IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | December 2020 | June 2022 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17045567 | IMAGE-CAPTURING DEVICE AND IMAGE TRANSMISSION RECORDING SYSTEM | December 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17132686 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | December 2020 | March 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17131346 | GLOBAL SHUTTER PIXEL CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR COMPUTER VISION APPLICATIONS | December 2020 | April 2022 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17129274 | DRIVING MECHANISM | December 2020 | October 2022 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17129174 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE | December 2020 | June 2022 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17128267 | IMAGE SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC CAMERA | December 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17126751 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT AND SOLID-STATE IMAGING APPARATUS | December 2020 | December 2021 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17126266 | ZOOM DUAL-APERTURE CAMERA WITH FOLDED LENS | December 2020 | October 2021 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17126381 | IMAGING DEVICE | December 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17127522 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2020 | April 2023 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17127745 | IMAGE-CAPTURING APPARATUS | December 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17127226 | TRACKING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17127571 | COLUMN AMPLIFIER CAPACITOR SWITCH CIRCUIT TO ADJUST ANALOG GAIN | December 2020 | December 2021 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17253990 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | December 2020 | October 2021 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17126689 | LENS MOVING APPARATUS AND CAMERA MODULE AND PORTABLE TERMINAL INCLUDING THE SAME | December 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17125619 | EVENT DRIVEN PIXEL FOR SPATIAL INFORMATION EXTRACTION | December 2020 | April 2022 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17125587 | EVENT-BASED VISION SENSOR | December 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17125399 | VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHING PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHING PROCESSING SYSTEM | December 2020 | November 2021 | Abandon | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17125974 | FRAMING RECOMMENDATIONS BY IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE | December 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17124171 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ENDOSCOPIC CAMERA | December 2020 | January 2022 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17124412 | OPTICAL APPARATUS HAVING VIBRATION DEVICE | December 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17124205 | Systems and Methods for Automatic Exposure of Images | December 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17123938 | IMAGING APPARATUS TO IMPROVE SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE IMAGING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17124278 | IMAGING DEVICE | December 2020 | December 2022 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17124311 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND MOVING BODY | December 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17122249 | DIGITALLY-CALIBRATED CTIA IMAGE SENSOR PIXEL | December 2020 | October 2022 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17122376 | SMART CONTACT LENS BASED COLLABORATIVE VIDEO CAPTURING | December 2020 | June 2021 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17247529 | IMAGE SENSOR MODULE | December 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17121772 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD THAT GENERATE A COMPLEX IMAGE BASED ON A FRESNEL ZONE PATTERN | December 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17121105 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR EXECUTING PREDETERMINE PROCESSING BASED ON IMAGE DATA ACQUIRED VIA FILTERS HAVING DIFFERENT POLARIZATION ANGLES, CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17120727 | CONTROL APPARATUS, LENS APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM | December 2020 | June 2021 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17120444 | IMAGING DEVICE THAT ALLOWS SENSITIVITY ADJUSTMENT WHILE ENSURING A FRAME RATE BY CONTROLLING THE VOLTAGES APPLIED TO AN ELECTRODE | December 2020 | December 2022 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17251926 | STACKED LIGHT-RECEIVING SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | December 2020 | April 2023 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17119084 | IMAGING ELEMENT, IMAGING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | December 2020 | June 2022 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17251347 | CAMERA UNIT WITH LIGHT STEERING MECHANISM AND THE APPLICATION THEREOF | December 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17116121 | IMAGING DEVICE AND CAMERA SYSTEM, AND DRIVING METHOD OF IMAGING DEVICE | December 2020 | January 2022 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17116459 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | December 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17115487 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | December 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17115623 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR OPERATING A CAMERA SENSE MODE | December 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17115671 | CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD | December 2020 | June 2022 | Abandon | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16972768 | CAMERA MODULE WITH TILTING PART | December 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17113522 | FIELD OF VIEW ADJUSTMENT | December 2020 | January 2022 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17113428 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AUTO FOCUS FUNCTION IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | December 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17247288 | IMAGE SENSOR WITH ACTIVE CLAMP TO SUPPRESS TRANSFER GATE FEEDTHROUGH | December 2020 | June 2022 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17113594 | A REFLECTION MODULE INCLUDING A HOLDER AND A REFLECTIVE MEMBER AND A CAMERA MODULE INCLUDING A REFLECTION MODULE | December 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16972172 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | December 2020 | December 2021 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17112068 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17111852 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS USING LEARNED MODEL, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHODS OF CONTROLLING RESPECTIVE APPARATUSES, LEARNED MODEL SELECTION SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2020 | October 2022 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17111269 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS HAVING SETTINGS FOR SUPPRESSING GENERATION OF SOUND OR LIGHT, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | December 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17111281 | CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2020 | July 2021 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15734850 | SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT, SOLID-STATE IMAGING ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT | December 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17109927 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AN IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND A NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | December 2020 | January 2022 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17110139 | Intensity Separated Local White Balance Correction | December 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15734348 | ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERTER, ANALOG-DIGITAL CONVERSION METHOD, AND IMAGING DEVICE | December 2020 | January 2022 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17108457 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | December 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17108945 | MEMS Electrostatic Actuator for Super Resolution and Autofocus in Cameras | December 2020 | January 2021 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17108672 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT ASSEMBLY WITH THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE STRUCTURES FOR IMAGE SENSORS | December 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17059613 | CAMERA ASSEMBLY, CONTROL METHOD OF CAMERA ASSEMBLY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | November 2020 | November 2021 | Allow | 12 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17106542 | CAMERA WALL PLATE WITH SECURITY CAMERA | November 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17105914 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING IMAGE IN CAMERA SWITCHING | November 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17058779 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING CONTROL METHOD | November 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17105103 | DUAL CAMERA MODULE INCLUDING HYPERSPECTRAL CAMERA MODULE, APPARATUSES INCLUDING DUAL CAMERA MODULE, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | November 2020 | December 2021 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17104744 | FOLDED ZOOM CAMERA MODULE WITH ADAPTIVE APERTURE | November 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17102610 | USER-CONFIGURABLE, GESTURAL ZOOM FACILITY FOR AN IMAGING DEVICE | November 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17103395 | RECORDING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING RECORDING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | November 2020 | May 2022 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17103359 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM, AND MOVABLE BODY | November 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17103437 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO MANAGE MULTI-MODE CAMERA PREVIEWS ON AN IMAGE-ORIGINATING DEVICE | November 2020 | July 2023 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17103805 | CONDITIONAL CAMERA CONTROL VIA AUTOMATED ASSISTANT COMMANDS | November 2020 | December 2022 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17058217 | VARIABLE MAGNIFICATION METHOD AND CAMERA | November 2020 | April 2021 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17101329 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP ACCESSORY, AND INTERMEDIATE ACCESSORY | November 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17101447 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH CONNECTION TERMINAL SECTION ON REAR SIDE | November 2020 | October 2021 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17101628 | ANALOG VOTING WITH OUTLIER SUPPRESSION | November 2020 | February 2023 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17058029 | IMAGING DEVICE | November 2020 | November 2022 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17102238 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | November 2020 | December 2021 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17100009 | PIXEL AND IMAGE SENSOR INCLUDING THE SAME | November 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17057606 | CAMERA MODULE ARRAY AND ASSEMBLY METHOD THEREFOR | November 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17057379 | SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGING DEVICE | November 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 16953372 | FILTER MOUNTING STRUCTURE | November 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16952785 | CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL DEVICE, AND PROGRAM | November 2020 | November 2021 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16952418 | RANDOM ACCESS SENSOR WITH INDIVIDUALLY ADDRESSABLE TRANSISTORS | November 2020 | April 2023 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 16952491 | IMAGE SENSING DEVICE | November 2020 | January 2022 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16950962 | IMAGING DEVICE | November 2020 | October 2021 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16951971 | DIRECTING COMMUNICATION OF DATA FROM AN IMAGE SENSOR | November 2020 | March 2023 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for art-unit 2697.
With a 25.3% 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, 33.2% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is above the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal can be an effective strategy for prompting reconsideration.
⚠ Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.
✓ Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Art Unit 2697 is part of Group 2690 in Technology Center 2600. This art unit has examined 6,812 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 76.5%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 25 months.
Art Unit 2697's allowance rate of 76.5% places it in the 50% percentile among all USPTO art units. This art unit has an above-average allowance rate compared to other art units.
Applications in Art Unit 2697 receive an average of 1.89 office actions before reaching final disposition (in the 48% percentile). The median prosecution time is 25 months (in the 76% percentile).
When prosecuting applications in this art unit, consider the following:
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