H04N 21/44218

Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user

Official title: {Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV programme (methods or arrangements for recognising human body or animal bodies or body parts G06V40/10; methods or arrangements for acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions G06V40/16; methods or arrangements for recognising movements or behaviour G06V40/20; arrangements for identifying users in broadcast systems H04H60/45)}

H04N21/44218 (Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user) appears on 2,774 US grants and 3,712 published applications in this corpus.

Search patents in H04N
Granted patents
2,774
Published applications
3,712
Assignees
773
Inventors
5,447
Latest grant
6 Oct 2026

Filings by year

H04N 21/44218: granted patents and published applications per publication year
YearGranted patentsPublished applications
198920
199000
199110
199200
199300
199410
199500
199630
199700
199810
199910
200010
200111
2002213
2003014
2004115
2005226
2006625
2007647
2008949
20091252
20101584
20111783
20123790
201363183
2014128241
2015154259
2016173222
2017186254
2018198252
2019231239
2020253287
2021252249
2022229261
2023237243
2024240213
2025198168
2026114142

By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.

Recent patents

Most cited

By later US patents