G06K 17/0016
Selecting or retrieving of images by means of their associated code-marks
Official title: {Selecting or retrieving of images by means of their associated code-marks, e.g. coded microfilm or microfiche (microfilm reading G03B21/11; computers therefor G06F16/00; teaching devices G09B5/02; accessing record carriers G11B27/002; static digital stores using optical elements G11C13/04; intermediate storage of facsimile picture signals H04N1/21)}
G06K17/0016 (Selecting or retrieving of images by means of their associated code-marks) appears on 206 US grants and 56 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06K- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 56
- Assignees
- 83
- Inventors
- 258
- Latest grant
- 3 Feb 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Search engines and systems with handheld document data capture devices3 Feb 2026US RE50,778 E1KYOCERA Corporation
- Search engines and systems with handheld document data capture devices23 Sep 2025US RE50,599 E1KYOCERA Corporation
- Cargo management system and methods of managing cargo20 Dec 2022US 11,531,957 B2Flexport, Inc.
- System that associates object with n-dimensional symbol4 Oct 2022US 11,461,606 B2NEC Corporation
- Medium conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus30 Nov 2021US 11,186,095 B2Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.
- System that associates object with n-dimensional symbol31 Mar 2022US 2022/0101077 A1NEC Corporation
- Cargo Management System and Methods of Managing Cargo3 Oct 2019US 2019/0303847 A1Flexport, Inc.
- Image mark sensing systems and methods14 Mar 2019US 2019/0080191 A1e-lmage Data Corp.
- Information processing apparatus, program, printing apparatus, and printing system21 Jun 2018US 2018/0173481 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Medium conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus26 Apr 2018US 2018/0111387 A1Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Record with encoded data561US 5,337,361 ASymbol Technologies, Inc. · 1994
- High density two-dimensional bar code symbol559US 5,304,786 ASymbol Technologies, Inc. · 1994
- Processing techniques for text capture from a rendered document396US 7,818,215 B2Exbiblio B. V. · 2010
- Adding information or functionality to a rendered document via association with an electronic counterpart374US 7,742,953 B2Exbiblio B. V. · 2010
- System for encoding and decoding data in machine readable graphic form328US 5,243,655 ASymbol Technologies, Inc. · 1993