H04N 13/204
Using stereoscopic image cameras
Official title: using stereoscopic image cameras (stereoscopic photography G03B35/00)
H04N13/204 (Using stereoscopic image cameras) appears on 9,680 US grants and 11,028 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 9,680
- Published applications
- 11,028
- Assignees
- 2,680
- Inventors
- 15,934
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04N 13/239Using two two-dimensional [2d] image sensors having a relative position equal to4,400
- H04N 13/207Using a single two-dimensional [2d] image sensor2,534
- H04N 13/243Using three or more two-dimensional [2d] image sensors1,914
- H04N 13/254In combination with electromagnetic radiation sources for illuminating objects1,781
- H04N 13/246Calibration of cameras1,199
- H04N 13/25Using two or more image sensors with different characteristics other than in695
Recent patents
- Systems and methods implementing distance-based image sensor windowing6 Oct 2026US 12,756,809 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Optical assemblies for endoscopic stereo visualization29 Sep 2026US 12,745,897 B2Cilag GmbH International
- Illumination sources for multicore fiber endoscopes29 Sep 2026US 12,745,900 B2Zsquare Ltd.
- System and method for updating an autonomous vehicle driving model based on the vehicle driving model becoming statistically incorrect29 Sep 2026US 12,746,928 B2Pronto.Ai, Inc.
- Camera invariant depth estimation29 Sep 2026US 12,749,211 B1NVIDIA Corporation
- Systems and Methods for Estimating Depth and Visibility from a Reference Viewpoint for Pixels in a Set of Images Captured from Different Viewpoints8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311355 A1Adeia Imaging LLC
- System and a method to achieve single-shot stereo calibration8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311368 A1Irida Labs S.A.
- System and a method to achieve single-shot stereo calibration8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311369 A1Irida Labs S.A.
- System and a method to achieve single-shot stereo calibration8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311370 A1Irida Labs S.A.
- Digital cinema camera system for recording, editing and visualizing images8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313084 A1Silicon Imaging Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Alignment of master and slave in a minimally invasive surgical apparatus2,565US 6,364,888 B1Intuitive Surgical, Inc. · 2002
- Apparatus and method for performing computer enhanced surgery with articulated instrument1,896US 6,223,100 B1SRI International · 2001
- Rearview vision system for vehicle including panoramic view1,778US 5,670,935 ADonnelly Corporation · 1997
- Electronic endoscope apparatus with imaging unit separable therefrom1,753US 5,653,677 AFuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd. · 1997
- Surgical method1,654US 6,963,792 B1SRI International · 2005