G10H 2220/405
Beam sensing or control, i.e. input interfaces involving substantially immaterial beams, radiation
Official title: Beam sensing or control, i.e. input interfaces involving substantially immaterial beams, radiation, or fields of any nature, used, e.g. as a switch as in a light barrier, or as a control device, e.g. using the theremin electric field sensing principle
G10H2220/405 (Beam sensing or control, i.e. input interfaces involving substantially immaterial beams, radiation) appears on 204 US grants and 212 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G10H- Granted patents
- 204
- Published applications
- 212
- Assignees
- 85
- Inventors
- 346
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 9 | 12 |
| 2026 | 3 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Water harp with optical sensing of the break of flowing water streams8 Sep 2026US 12,731,567 B2Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Gesture-controlled virtual reality systems and methods of controlling the same7 Apr 2026US 12,596,440 B2Intel Corporation
- Information processing method and electronic musical instrument24 Mar 2026US 12,586,553 B2Roland Corporation
- Apparatus for generating audio and/or performance synchronized optical output, and musical instrument and systems therefor23 Dec 2025US 12,504,942 B2
- Panel and electronic equipment9 Dec 2025US 12,494,187 B2Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
- Panel, electronic musical instrument, and electronic device25 Jun 2026US 2026/0179591 A1Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
- Linkage system with led projection and sound28 May 2026US 2026/0147265 A1Gba Branch of Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Doppler microwave transducer for musical instruments27 Nov 2025US 2025/0363970 A1
- Face alignment virtual piano system16 Oct 2025US 2025/0322819 A1
- Musical instrument and producing method thereof25 Sep 2025US 2025/0299650 A1Yamaha Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for isolating and manipulating graphic objects on computer video monitor397US 4,746,770 ASensor Frame Incorporated · 1988
- Three-dimensional displacement of a body with computer interface396US 5,214,615 A1993
- Home digital audiovisual information recording and playback system271US 6,182,126 B2TouchTunes Music Corporation · 2001
- Method of communications for an intelligent digital audiovisual playback system243US 6,308,204 B1TouchTunes Music Corporation · 2001
- VideoHarp240US 4,968,877 ASensor Frame Incorporated · 1990