H04N 1/6077
Colour balance
Official title: {Colour balance, e.g. colour cast correction}
H04N1/6077 (Colour balance) appears on 356 US grants and 364 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 356
- Published applications
- 364
- Assignees
- 164
- Inventors
- 669
- Latest grant
- 30 Jun 2026
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| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 0 |
| 2002 | 2 | 4 |
| 2003 | 10 | 27 |
| 2004 | 8 | 16 |
| 2005 | 8 | 18 |
| 2006 | 9 | 19 |
| 2007 | 21 | 16 |
| 2008 | 19 | 13 |
| 2009 | 12 | 21 |
| 2010 | 14 | 15 |
| 2011 | 14 | 6 |
| 2012 | 17 | 11 |
| 2013 | 17 | 8 |
| 2014 | 18 | 18 |
| 2015 | 12 | 29 |
| 2016 | 26 | 13 |
| 2017 | 13 | 24 |
| 2018 | 9 | 10 |
| 2019 | 18 | 17 |
| 2020 | 16 | 14 |
| 2021 | 12 | 10 |
| 2022 | 10 | 10 |
| 2023 | 7 | 22 |
| 2024 | 16 | 12 |
| 2025 | 15 | 6 |
| 2026 | 7 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Image processor formed in an array of memory cells2 Jul 2026US 2026/0189669 A1Lodestar Licensing Group LLC
- Image processing device and control method for image processing device30 Apr 2026US 2026/0122197 A1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Method and apparatus with image transformation29 Jan 2026US 2026/0030786 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- System and method for preparing printing data15 Jan 2026US 2026/0016998 A1Xeikon Manufacturing N.V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods for differential image quality enhancement for a multiple detector system, systems and use thereof1,019US 9,471,969 B2ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company · 2016
- Method and apparatus for the automatic analysis of density range, color cast, and gradation of image originals on the BaSis of image values transformed from a first color space into a second color space173US 5,668,890 ALinotype-Hell AG · 1997
- Imaging device which adjusts the ratio of color excitation values produced by an image pickup element in accordance with an exit pupil position and the size of an aperture103US 5,602,412 ANikon Corporation · 1997
- Image processing method, image processing apparatus and recording medium87US 6,694,051 B1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2004
- Method for automatic scene balance of digital images72US 6,243,133 B1Eastman Kodak Company · 2001