H04N 1/3872
Repositioning or masking
Official title: {Repositioning or masking}
H04N1/3872 (Repositioning or masking) appears on 1,503 US grants and 1,175 published applications in this corpus.
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- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
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| 2026 | 7 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
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- Imager and non-transitory recording medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313061 A1Pfu Limited
- Non-transitory computer readable storage medium27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254912 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Image processing method and apparatus, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium815US 8,483,509 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2013
- Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system477US 8,279,319 B2Sony Corporation · 2012
- Method for determining necessary resolution for zoom and crop images399US 6,643,416 B1Eastman Kodak Company · 2003
- Image editing system including masking capability305US 5,469,536 AImageWare Software, Inc. · 1995
- Index print with a digital recording medium containing still images, motion sequences, and sound sequences256US 5,706,097 AEastman Kodak Company · 1998