H04N 1/1936
Using a light guide
Official title: {using a light guide, e.g. an optical fibre bundle or array}
H04N1/1936 (Using a light guide) appears on 26 US grants and 15 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 26
- Published applications
- 15
- Assignees
- 22
- Inventors
- 56
- Latest grant
- 26 Mar 2024
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| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Waveguide type compact optical scanner and manufacturing method thereof139US 5,747,796 ASharp Kabushiki Kaisha · 1998
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