G06F 3/16
Sound input
Official title: Sound input; Sound output (speech processing G10L)
G06F3/16 (Sound input) appears on 21,439 US grants and 26,931 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 21,439
- Published applications
- 26,931
- Assignees
- 4,293
- Inventors
- 39,070
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 5 | 0 |
| 1983 | 5 | 0 |
| 1984 | 11 | 0 |
| 1985 | 4 | 0 |
| 1986 | 5 | 0 |
| 1987 | 16 | 0 |
| 1988 | 12 | 0 |
| 1989 | 15 | 0 |
| 1990 | 8 | 0 |
| 1991 | 11 | 0 |
| 1992 | 13 | 0 |
| 1993 | 14 | 0 |
| 1994 | 15 | 0 |
| 1995 | 14 | 0 |
| 1996 | 32 | 0 |
| 1997 | 41 | 0 |
| 1998 | 47 | 0 |
| 1999 | 63 | 0 |
| 2000 | 47 | 0 |
| 2001 | 53 | 25 |
| 2002 | 58 | 113 |
| 2003 | 58 | 85 |
| 2004 | 54 | 104 |
| 2005 | 59 | 116 |
| 2006 | 69 | 115 |
| 2007 | 71 | 144 |
| 2008 | 64 | 153 |
| 2009 | 91 | 178 |
| 2010 | 103 | 224 |
| 2011 | 147 | 215 |
| 2012 | 192 | 281 |
| 2013 | 183 | 563 |
| 2014 | 344 | 709 |
| 2015 | 502 | 1070 |
| 2016 | 826 | 1531 |
| 2017 | 1058 | 1804 |
| 2018 | 1360 | 1828 |
| 2019 | 1876 | 2390 |
| 2020 | 2188 | 2654 |
| 2021 | 2241 | 2648 |
| 2022 | 2272 | 2435 |
| 2023 | 2171 | 2256 |
| 2024 | 2116 | 2112 |
| 2025 | 1837 | 1811 |
| 2026 | 1055 | 1367 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Voice activated lane change with driver monitoring system validatation6 Oct 2026US 12,752,789 B2GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Methods and systems for controlling media content presentation on a smart glasses display6 Oct 2026US 12,754,431 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Audio-visual navigation and communication dynamic memory architectures6 Oct 2026US 12,754,651 B2Aq Media, Inc.
- Audio device, program, and control method6 Oct 2026US 12,754,711 B2Alphatheta Corporation
- Authentication using active acoustic sensing6 Oct 2026US 12,754,987 B2Google Inc.
- Smart switch with functionalities determined based on a grounded conductor connection8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310248 A1Roku, Inc.
- Emotive assistant with attention-based interaction capabilities8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310290 A1
- Dynamic packaging system for a wearable biosensor8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310297 A1Aquilx Incorporated
- Information processing system and information processing method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310311 A1Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
- System and method for video conferencing on a dual screen television8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310397 A1Telly, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for controlling multimedia players in a multi-zone system2,132US 7,571,014 B1Sonos, Inc. · 2009
- System and method for synchronizing operations among a plurality of independently clocked digital data processing devices1,949US 8,234,395 B2Sonos, Inc. · 2012
- Controlling and manipulating groupings in a multi-zone media system1,881US 8,483,853 B1Sonos, Inc. · 2013
- Method and device for obtaining playlist content over a network1,821US 8,045,952 B2Horsham Enterprises, LLC · 2011
- Wired, wireless, infrared, and powerline audio entertainment systems1,762US 8,103,009 B2KSC Industries, Inc. · 2012