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Reduced bit number motion vector detection

EP 0664653 B1 · Applicant: SONY CORPORATION

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  • Filed January 20, 1995 and granted July 28, 1999. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 20, 2015.
  • 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 July 20, 2020.
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FiledJanuary 20, 1995
PublishedJuly 26, 1995
GrantedJuly 28, 1999
Term endedJanuary 20, 2015
Application numberEP 95300354
Classification (CPC)H04N19/43 +2 more

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