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Horizontal filter for a luminance signal and a chrominance signal

EP 0309975 B1 · Applicant: Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH

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  • Filed September 27, 1988 and granted April 28, 1993. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 27, 2008.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by March 27, 2014.
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FiledSeptember 27, 1988
PublishedApril 5, 1989
GrantedApril 28, 1993
Term endedSeptember 27, 2008
Application numberEP 88115852
Classification (CPC)H04N9/64 +1 more

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1989199119931995199719992001200320052007Application filedSep 27, 1988PublishedApril 5, 1989Patent grantedApril 28, 1993Term endedSep 27, 2008

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