Listed by the USPTO as LIU, XIAO
Tech Center 3700 • Art Units: 2613 2664 2668 3774
This examiner grants 88% of resolved cases
Xiao Liu has managed 320 resolved cases in Art Unit 2613. The allowance rate for these cases is 87.5%. The median time to allowance is 938 days. The interview lift is 12.3%, which represents the statistical change in the probability of allowance following an interview. These figures describe the prosecution environment in Tech Center 3700.
NEC Corporation, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., and Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited are the top companies in this examiner's record. The 87.5% allowance rate and the 938-day median pendency are key metrics for these applicants. Firms like Anova Law Group, PLLC, BakerHostetler, and BANNER & WITCOFF, LTD. are active in this queue.
The 12.3% interview lift indicates that direct communication with the examiner correlates with a higher probability of allowance. Practitioners can use the 938-day median time to allowance to estimate the duration of the prosecution process. The 87.5% allowance rate provides a baseline for the likelihood of success. The 320 resolved cases offer a specific view of the examiner's historical performance.
| App # | Title | Status | Assignee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18900476 | IMAGE SPECIFIC GLOBAL TONE CURVE AND RESIDUAL GAIN MAP GENERATION BASED ON MULTIPLE IMAGES | Non-Final OA | Apple Inc. |
| 18721177 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF IMAGE PROCESSING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Final Rejection | Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd. |
| 18662584 | GENERATING NATURAL LANGUAGE DESCRIPTIONS OF IMAGES | Final Rejection | Google LLC |
| 19100618 | MOBILE BODY TRACKING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | Non-Final OA | NEC Corporation |
| 18994670 | ROAD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ROAD MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | Non-Final OA | NEC Corporation |
| 18994665 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | Non-Final OA | NEC Corporation |
| 18715164 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | Final Rejection | NEC Corporation |
| 18588194 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | Final Rejection | KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA |
| 19062652 | IMAGE CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | Non-Final OA | HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. |
| 18551258 | MODEL TRAINING METHOD, SCENE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND RELATED DEVICE | Non-Final OA | HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. |
| 18636550 | 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 |
| 19106651 | VENDOR-AGNOSTIC AI IMAGE PROCESSING | Non-Final OA | KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. |
| 18910470 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING TRANSPARENT OBSTACLE BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | Non-Final OA | Kia Corporation |
| 18994663 | LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND LEARNING PROGRAM | Non-Final OA | NTT, Inc. |
| 19076701 | IMAGE RENDERING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT | Non-Final OA | Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited |
| 19055443 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING HUMAN BODY DEPTH MAP, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Non-Final OA | TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED |
| 18614160 | OBJECT DETECTION USING IMAGE ALIGNMENT FOR AUTONOMOUS MACHINE APPLICATIONS | Final Rejection | NVIDIA Corporation |
| 18656991 | DETECT HIDDEN OBJECTS USING VEHICLE AND INFRASTRUCTURE SENSOR FUSION | Final Rejection | Ford Global Technologies, LLC |
| 19041244 | PRODUCT-INCLUSIVE IMAGE ALT TEXT GENERATION | Non-Final OA | Walmart Apollo, LLC |
| 19065185 | SYSTEM-ON-CHIP-BASED IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Non-Final OA | BEIJING HORIZON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. |
| 18945375 | UNSUPERVISED LEARNING OF OBJECT KEYPOINT LOCATIONS IN IMAGES THROUGH TEMPORAL TRANSPORT OR SPATIO-TEMPORAL TRANSPORT | Non-Final OA | DeepMind Technologies Limited |
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Build Your Strategy87.5% of resolved applications examined by Xiao Liu were allowed (320 resolved cases), compared with 68.8% across Art Unit 2613 over the last five years.
This examiner's interview lift is +12.3 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.
Applications allowed by Xiao Liu took 938 days on average from filing to allowance.
Xiao Liu examines applications in Art Unit 2613 in Tech Center 3700 (Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering).
