G03B 37/00
Panoramic or wide-screen photography
Official title: Panoramic or wide-screen photography; Photographing extended surfaces, e.g. for surveying; Photographing internal surfaces, e.g. of pipe
G03B37/00 (Panoramic or wide-screen photography) appears on 1,880 US grants and 2,011 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G03B- Granted patents
- 1,880
- Published applications
- 2,011
- Assignees
- 840
- Inventors
- 3,347
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 5 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1979 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982 | 6 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 19 | 0 |
| 2001 | 16 | 5 |
| 2002 | 14 | 16 |
| 2003 | 18 | 24 |
| 2004 | 18 | 26 |
| 2005 | 14 | 33 |
| 2006 | 28 | 49 |
| 2007 | 20 | 63 |
| 2008 | 25 | 49 |
| 2009 | 35 | 42 |
| 2010 | 41 | 49 |
| 2011 | 46 | 69 |
| 2012 | 40 | 74 |
| 2013 | 50 | 82 |
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| 2015 | 86 | 110 |
| 2016 | 89 | 120 |
| 2017 | 113 | 133 |
| 2018 | 111 | 151 |
| 2019 | 152 | 146 |
| 2020 | 166 | 158 |
| 2021 | 128 | 137 |
| 2022 | 104 | 87 |
| 2023 | 112 | 112 |
| 2024 | 89 | 88 |
| 2025 | 97 | 58 |
| 2026 | 42 | 38 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Panoramic unmanned aerial vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,752,941 B2Antigravity (Sz) Technology Co., Ltd.
- Projection apparatus29 Sep 2026US 12,748,346 B1Guangzhou Lihe Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
- Spring assemblies with variable flexibility for use with push-cables and pipe inspection systems22 Sep 2026US 12,743,014 B2Seescan, Inc.
- Image capturing device and panoramic image creation method22 Sep 2026US 12,743,015 B2Pfu Limited
- Method for obtaining the optical projection mechanism of a camera22 Sep 2026US 12,744,880 B2
- Panoramic camera support24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287983 A1Really Right Stuff, LLC
- Scanning tele camera based on two prism field-of-view scanning24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287995 A1Corephotonics Ltd.
- Electric shaver with imaging capability24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292317 A1May Patents Ltd.
- Thermal imaging camera device3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259083 A1Thermal Imaging Radar, LLC
- Hardware-accelerated neuromorphic system for real-time outcome monitoring, multimodal asset governance, and regulatory compliance for transposable self-reliant entities27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254923 A1Virtual Video Really by Ritchey, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for optical see-through head mounted display with mutual occlusion and opaqueness control capability688US 9,547,174 B2Magic Leap, Inc. · 2017
- Panoramic display system611US 5,130,794 A1992
- Automatic video system using multiple cameras582US 7,015,954 B1Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. · 2006
- Wide-field of view (FOV) imaging devices with active foveation capability563US 9,851,563 B2Magic Leap, Inc. · 2017
- Medical camera system509US 4,278,077 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1981