H04N 1/12
Using the sheet-feed movement or the medium-advance or the drum-rotation movement as
Official title: using the sheet-feed movement {or the medium-advance or the drum-rotation movement} as the slow scanning component, {e.g. arrangements for the main-scanning}({sheet-feed movement by translatory movement of a flat picture-bearing surface H04N1/1008; main-scanning using oscillating or rotating mirrors H04N1/113; } using multi-element arrays H04N1/19)
H04N1/12 (Using the sheet-feed movement or the medium-advance or the drum-rotation movement as) appears on 3,042 US grants and 1,877 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 3,042
- Published applications
- 1,877
- Assignees
- 440
- Inventors
- 4,462
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | 0 |
| 1977 | 8 | 0 |
| 1978 | 12 | 0 |
| 1979 | 8 | 0 |
| 1980 | 17 | 0 |
| 1981 | 14 | 0 |
| 1982 | 19 | 0 |
| 1983 | 16 | 0 |
| 1984 | 16 | 0 |
| 1985 | 15 | 0 |
| 1986 | 35 | 0 |
| 1987 | 36 | 0 |
| 1988 | 49 | 0 |
| 1989 | 54 | 0 |
| 1990 | 72 | 0 |
| 1991 | 51 | 0 |
| 1992 | 70 | 0 |
| 1993 | 60 | 0 |
| 1994 | 64 | 0 |
| 1995 | 59 | 0 |
| 1996 | 67 | 0 |
| 1997 | 81 | 0 |
| 1998 | 129 | 0 |
| 1999 | 119 | 0 |
| 2000 | 129 | 0 |
| 2001 | 108 | 43 |
| 2002 | 73 | 95 |
| 2003 | 83 | 101 |
| 2004 | 75 | 111 |
| 2005 | 59 | 127 |
| 2006 | 99 | 91 |
| 2007 | 74 | 102 |
| 2008 | 85 | 116 |
| 2009 | 92 | 121 |
| 2010 | 100 | 103 |
| 2011 | 96 | 124 |
| 2012 | 100 | 91 |
| 2013 | 156 | 95 |
| 2014 | 132 | 79 |
| 2015 | 89 | 47 |
| 2016 | 48 | 31 |
| 2017 | 30 | 57 |
| 2018 | 56 | 69 |
| 2019 | 67 | 49 |
| 2020 | 49 | 36 |
| 2021 | 22 | 37 |
| 2022 | 54 | 46 |
| 2023 | 37 | 30 |
| 2024 | 27 | 37 |
| 2025 | 13 | 22 |
| 2026 | 13 | 17 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus having inclined planar shape of background member to improve sheet shadow detection accuracy8 Sep 2026US 12,732,580 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image reading apparatus8 Sep 2026US 12,732,581 B2KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Image reading device, adjustment method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium encoded with adjustment program1 Sep 2026US 12,726,578 B2Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Image scanner28 Jul 2026US 12,695,836 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image reading device, and control method for image reading device correction control21 Jul 2026US 12,689,700 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Document conveying device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274599 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Control circuit in ultrasonic detection device, conveyance device, and image processing device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251449 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Image forming apparatus20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246881 A1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Medium transport device and image reading device6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225839 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Medium discharge device and image reading apparatus23 Jul 2026US 2026/0214176 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Image read device and copier1,024US 8,599,450 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2013
- Still video camera having a printer capable of printing a photographed image in a plurality of printing modes421US 5,493,409 AMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha · 1996
- DMD scanner254US 5,457,566 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1995
- Digitizing scanner232US 6,606,171 B1Howtek, Inc. · 2003
- Hand held mobile phone with integral internal printer with print media supply231US 6,405,055 B1Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd · 2002