G06K 7/10
Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers: by electromagnetic radiation
Official title: by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation
G06K7/10 (Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers: by electromagnetic radiation) appears on 24,407 US grants and 24,774 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06K 7/10009Sensing by radiation using wavelengths larger than 0.1 mm10,127
- G06K 7/10544By scanning of the records by radiation in the optical part of8,893
- G06K 7/14Using light without selection of wavelength8,853
- G06K 7/12Using a selected wavelength728
- G06K 2007/10524Hand-held scannersIndexing code442
- G06K 2007/10504Data fields affixed to objects or articlesIndexing code240
- G06K 2007/10485Arrangement of optical elementsIndexing code77
- G06K 7/1099Scanning using x-rays26
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