G01J 2003/466
Coded colour
Official title: {Coded colour; Recognition of predetermined colour; Determining proximity to predetermined colour}
G01J2003/466 (Coded colour) appears on 233 US grants and 182 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Color sensor system for the recognition of objects with colored surfaces145US 4,917,500 ASiemens Aktiengesellschaft · 1990
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- Method and circuit for recognition of colors103US 4,414,635 ADr. Ing. Rudolf Hell GmbH · 1983
- Optical color analysis process97US 4,812,904 AMegatronics, Incorporated · 1989
- Computerized color matching95US 4,813,000 AJones-Blair Company · 1989