G06F 16/50
Information retrieval: of still image data
Official title: of still image data
G06F16/50 (Information retrieval: of still image data) appears on 13,593 US grants and 16,885 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 13,593
- Published applications
- 16,885
- Assignees
- 3,620
- Inventors
- 27,210
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2002 | 64 | 192 |
| 2003 | 100 | 194 |
| 2004 | 98 | 213 |
| 2005 | 101 | 277 |
| 2006 | 135 | 326 |
| 2007 | 134 | 346 |
| 2008 | 145 | 456 |
| 2009 | 177 | 457 |
| 2010 | 308 | 454 |
| 2011 | 281 | 519 |
| 2012 | 395 | 546 |
| 2013 | 513 | 743 |
| 2014 | 625 | 956 |
| 2015 | 786 | 1117 |
| 2016 | 860 | 1120 |
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| 2020 | 1046 | 1144 |
| 2021 | 1018 | 1052 |
| 2022 | 922 | 910 |
| 2023 | 875 | 765 |
| 2024 | 812 | 680 |
| 2025 | 642 | 607 |
| 2026 | 368 | 426 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Communication apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium6 Oct 2026US 12,754,952 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- System to generate contextual queries6 Oct 2026US 12,754,962 B2Snap Inc.
- Systems and methods of sensor data fusion6 Oct 2026US 12,754,977 B2Digital Global Systems, Inc.
- System and method for policy enforcement6 Oct 2026US 12,754,981 B2Google Inc.
- Image restoration method and apparatus, device, medium and product6 Oct 2026US 12,755,346 B2Beijing Youzhuju Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Method for creating alternate album for playing content8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310334 A1Muzlive Inc.
- Operating system state context management8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310693 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Automatic digital model security classification using artificial intelligence8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310713 A1The Aerospace Corporation
- Method and system for search of residential house plans8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310719 A1
- Systems and methods for depositing and identifying patterned coatings8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310754 A1Avery Dennison Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Local-remote apparatus with specialized image storage modules1,600US 5,321,816 AUnisys Corporation · 1994
- Microwave ablation system with user-controlled ablation size and method of use1,072US 9,277,969 B2Covidien LP · 2016
- Tagging digital media909US 7,945,653 B2Facebook, Inc. · 2011
- Generation, archiving, and retrieval of digital images with evoked suggestion-set captions and natural language interface765US 5,493,677 ASystems Research & Applications Corporation · 1996
- Multimedia search system using a plurality of entry path means which indicate interrelatedness of information744US 5,241,671 AEncyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. · 1993