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Apparatuses and methods for learning and using a distance transition model

EP 1863014 B1 · Applicant: Sony Corporation

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  • Filed October 12, 1999 and granted September 30, 2009. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 12, 2019.
  • 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 April 12, 2025.
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FiledOctober 12, 1999
PublishedDecember 5, 2007
GrantedSeptember 30, 2009
Term endedOctober 12, 2019
Application numberEP 07116722
Classification (CPC)G06V40/20 +2 more

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