H04N 21/4542
Blocking scenes or portions of the received content
Official title: {Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes}
H04N21/4542 (Blocking scenes or portions of the received content) appears on 807 US grants and 1,050 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 807
- Published applications
- 1,050
- Assignees
- 352
- Inventors
- 1,807
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 3 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 5 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 8 | 0 |
| 2000 | 18 | 0 |
| 2001 | 13 | 8 |
| 2002 | 5 | 21 |
| 2003 | 6 | 42 |
| 2004 | 12 | 28 |
| 2005 | 14 | 37 |
| 2006 | 12 | 35 |
| 2007 | 12 | 60 |
| 2008 | 6 | 33 |
| 2009 | 16 | 50 |
| 2010 | 25 | 30 |
| 2011 | 27 | 36 |
| 2012 | 27 | 44 |
| 2013 | 49 | 39 |
| 2014 | 47 | 54 |
| 2015 | 42 | 58 |
| 2016 | 46 | 43 |
| 2017 | 42 | 39 |
| 2018 | 36 | 35 |
| 2019 | 41 | 42 |
| 2020 | 44 | 59 |
| 2021 | 44 | 55 |
| 2022 | 52 | 48 |
| 2023 | 47 | 58 |
| 2024 | 40 | 37 |
| 2025 | 38 | 37 |
| 2026 | 17 | 22 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Health aware media navigation and consumption11 Aug 2026US 12,707,124 B2Apple Inc.
- Playing media contents based on metadata indicating content categories28 Jul 2026US 12,695,949 B2Roku, Inc.
- Selection of electronic content and services30 Jun 2026US 12,671,784 B2Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Content filtering in media playing devices2 Jun 2026US 12,647,650 B2SoundHound AI IP, LLC
- Systems and methods for notifying a user when activity exceeds an authorization level17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281500 A1Adeia Guides Inc.
- Method for removing moderated content from a video streaming platform10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270511 A1Mux, Inc.
- Systems and methods for scene change recommendations10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270512 A1Adeia Guides Inc.
- Systems and methods for leveraging machine learning for improving and enhancing dvr services27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255011 A1Adeia Guides Inc.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Seamless transmission of non-sequential video segments488US 5,434,678 A1995
- Advertisement subsidized video-on-demand system473US 6,553,178 B22003
- Apparatus and method for total parental control of television use433US 5,382,983 A1995
- System for integrating video and communications421US 5,684,918 A1997
- Parental control for CATV converters401US 4,718,107 ARCA Corporation · 1988