G06K 7/00
Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers
Official title: Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, {e.g. for reading patterns} (methods or arrangements for marking the record carrier in digital fashion G06K1/00; pattern recognition G06F18/00; arrangements for image or video recognition or understanding G06V10/00; character recognition, recognising digital ink or document-oriented image-based pattern recognition G06V30/00)
G06K7/00 (Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers) appears on 29,801 US grants and 28,859 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06K- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 1501 | 1365 |
| 2025 | 1313 | 1109 |
| 2026 | 729 | 704 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06K 7/10Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers: by electromagnetic radiation24,407
- G06K 7/0008General problems related to the reading of electronic memory record carriers, independent3,495
- G06K 7/0013Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers: by galvanic contacts2,040
- G06K 7/08Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers: by means detecting the change1,651
- G06K 7/01Details782
- G06K 7/0004Hybrid readers646
- G06K 7/0095Testing the sensing arrangement302
- G06K 7/06Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers: by means which conduct current96
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