G06V 40/18
Eye characteristics
Official title: Eye characteristics, e.g. of the iris
G06V40/18 (Eye characteristics) appears on 6,094 US grants and 7,823 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06V- Granted patents
- 6,094
- Published applications
- 7,823
- Assignees
- 1,844
- Inventors
- 11,967
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 547 | 532 |
| 2025 | 532 | 414 |
| 2026 | 260 | 323 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Driver cognitive distraction detector and mitigation system and method6 Oct 2026US 12,752,813 B2GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Personalized, real-time audio processing6 Oct 2026US 12,755,748 B2eBay Inc.
- Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods for eye gaze correction in camera image streams22 Sep 2026US 12,743,152 B2Intel Corporation
- Systems, methods, and apparatus for enhanced cameras22 Sep 2026US 12,743,883 B2Science House LLC
- Driver psychophysiological state detection15 Sep 2026US 12,735,047 B2Harman International Industries, Incorporated
- Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing program, and information processing method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305934 A1Nikon Corporation
- Head-mounted display testing system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305935 A1Heru Inc.
- Technology configured to enable determination of sleep apnoea risk factors for subject based on artefacts of time-series eyelid amplitude data collected during conscious state8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305980 A1
- Companion animal biological information acquisition method and electronic device for conditionally detecting behavior information about person and biological information about companion animal together8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311506 A1Petnow Inc.
- Image processing apparatus, control method for controlling image processing apparatus, and storage medium for obtaining suitable images8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311516 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fully automated iris recognition system utilizing wide and narrow fields of view1,008US 6,714,665 B1Sarnoff Corporation · 2004
- Virtual and augmented reality systems and methods701US 9,791,700 B2Magic Leap, Inc. · 2017
- Biometric personal identification system based on iris analysis673US 5,291,560 AIri Scan Incorporated · 1994
- Hand gesture control system640US 6,002,808 AMitsubishi Electric Information Technology Center America, Inc. · 1999
- Unlocking a screen using eye tracking information571US 8,235,529 B1Google Inc. · 2012