Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: HESS, MICHAEL J

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2481

This examiner grants 44% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

43.9%
Allow Rate
-14.1% vs TC avg
487
Total Applications
+7.9%
Interview Lift
1329
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 419 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0.5%
§101 Eligibility
4.6%
§102 Novelty
88.8%
§103 Obviousness
3.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18689066 METHOD FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL BY USING LOCAL ILLUMINATION COMPENSATION (LIC) MODE, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR Final Rejection WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
18919243 SUBBLOCK CODING INFERENCE IN VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
18782956 CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ENCODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
18837061 IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM Final Rejection LG Electronics Inc.
18704707 NON-SEPARABLE PRIMARY TRANSFORM DESIGN METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA LG Electronics Inc.
18124214 TRANSFORM-BASED IMAGE CODING METHOD, AND DEVICE FOR SAME Non-Final OA LG ELECTRONICS INC.
18901951 CAMERA PEEK INTO TURN Non-Final OA Waymo LLC
18902428 CHROMA BLOCK PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18678344 THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING METHOD AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING METHOD Final Rejection Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
17154589 THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING DEVICE Final Rejection Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
17477257 SUBPICTURE ENTITY GROUPS IN VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA Lemon Inc.
18835933 DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Non-Final OA Beijing Youzhuju Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18049262 MACHINE LEARNING BASED VIDEO COMPRESSION Non-Final OA ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
18633239 CONTEXT-BASED CODING OF TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS FOR KLT-BASED TRANSFORMS Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18504455 Block Vector Difference (BVD) Indication with Reduced Overhead Non-Final OA Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
18817821 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CODING USING ADAPTIVE CHROMA SPACE CONVERSION Final Rejection RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
18438028 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
18535903 METHOD, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
18513020 Palette Mode For Local Dual Tree Final Rejection Bytedance Inc.
18561690 METHOD, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
18503754 SIZE RESTRICTION BASED ON COLOR FORMAT Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
18492944 CLIPPING IN REFERENCE PICTURE RESAMPLING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
17700086 INTERACTION BETWEEN PAIRWISE AVERAGE MERGING CANDIDATES AND IBC Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
17693081 INITIALIZATION OF PALETTE FOR WAVEFRONT PARALLEL PROCESSING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
18636700 METHOD FOR CONFORMANCE CHECKING OF THE HAPTICS FILES, STREAMS, AND HAPTICS DECODERS Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
18140337 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING USING BI-PREDICTION Non-Final OA InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
18568155 CODING OF LAST SIGNIFICANT COEFFICIENT IN A BLOCK OF A PICTURE Non-Final OA InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS
18662182 VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING INTRA-PREDICTION FOR AN ENCODING/DECODING TARGET BLOCK Non-Final OA KT CORPORATION
18570287 VIDEO SIGNAL ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING BITSTREAM STORED THEREIN Non-Final OA KT CORPORATION
19038642 STEREO CAMERA WITH FRAMELESS IMAGE SENSING Final Rejection Robotic Research OpCo, LLC

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