H04N 1/38
Circuits or arrangements for blanking or otherwise eliminating unwanted parts of pictures
Official title: Circuits or arrangements for blanking or otherwise eliminating unwanted parts of pictures (H04N1/387 takes precedence)
H04N1/38 (Circuits or arrangements for blanking or otherwise eliminating unwanted parts of pictures) appears on 478 US grants and 308 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 478
- Published applications
- 308
- Assignees
- 127
- Inventors
- 771
- Latest grant
- 6 Jan 2026
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| 2024 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Image processing apparatus, method of controlling image processing apparatus, and storage medium2 Apr 2026US 2026/0095533 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
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- Image processing apparatus and image processing method28 Nov 2024US 2024/0397012 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Imaging system, electronic camera, computer system for controlling said electronic camera, and methods of controlling same200US 5,479,206 AFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. · 1995
- Image processing apparatus which adds apparatus identification data to images169US 5,257,119 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1993
- Image processing system with automatic image cropping and skew correction147US 6,430,320 B1Hewlett-Packard Company · 2002
- Information processing methodology143US 5,258,855 ASystem X, L. P. · 1993
- Document processing system and method139US 5,335,292 ARecognition International Inc. · 1994