H04N 1/00352
Input means
Official title: {Input means (H04N1/00411 takes precedence; input arrangements for computers G06F3/00)}
H04N1/00352 (Input means) appears on 2,901 US grants and 3,060 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 2,901
- Published applications
- 3,060
- Assignees
- 363
- Inventors
- 3,678
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 6 | 0 |
| 1987 | 4 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 10 | 0 |
| 1990 | 8 | 0 |
| 1991 | 12 | 0 |
| 1992 | 23 | 0 |
| 1993 | 16 | 0 |
| 1994 | 27 | 0 |
| 1995 | 26 | 0 |
| 1996 | 25 | 0 |
| 1997 | 24 | 0 |
| 1998 | 39 | 0 |
| 1999 | 44 | 0 |
| 2000 | 39 | 0 |
| 2001 | 40 | 26 |
| 2002 | 42 | 79 |
| 2003 | 40 | 102 |
| 2004 | 68 | 123 |
| 2005 | 61 | 205 |
| 2006 | 120 | 194 |
| 2007 | 97 | 142 |
| 2008 | 106 | 152 |
| 2009 | 102 | 166 |
| 2010 | 130 | 144 |
| 2011 | 202 | 127 |
| 2012 | 135 | 85 |
| 2013 | 78 | 116 |
| 2014 | 102 | 122 |
| 2015 | 143 | 131 |
| 2016 | 124 | 128 |
| 2017 | 118 | 140 |
| 2018 | 129 | 122 |
| 2019 | 110 | 142 |
| 2020 | 138 | 164 |
| 2021 | 134 | 132 |
| 2022 | 121 | 109 |
| 2023 | 112 | 82 |
| 2024 | 69 | 55 |
| 2025 | 36 | 44 |
| 2026 | 29 | 28 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04N 1/00355Mark-sheet input840
- H04N 1/00384Key input means725
- H04N 1/00392Other manual input means504
- H04N 1/00397Switches, knobs or the like293
- H04N 1/00403Voice input means277
- H04N 1/00395Arrangements for reducing operator input231
- H04N 1/00381Input by recognition or interpretation of visible user gestures186
Recent patents
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- Display control system, information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270352 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Image forming apparatus27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252157 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions 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
- Optical flow based tilt sensor551US 7,379,566 B2GestureTek, Inc. · 2008
- 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