H04N 21/8106
Involving special audio data
Official title: {involving special audio data, e.g. different tracks for different languages}
H04N21/8106 (Involving special audio data) appears on 2,519 US grants and 3,317 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 2,519
- Published applications
- 3,317
- Assignees
- 762
- Inventors
- 4,713
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 7 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 12 | 0 |
| 2000 | 18 | 0 |
| 2001 | 26 | 17 |
| 2002 | 22 | 73 |
| 2003 | 17 | 80 |
| 2004 | 26 | 99 |
| 2005 | 29 | 87 |
| 2006 | 38 | 156 |
| 2007 | 41 | 133 |
| 2008 | 46 | 97 |
| 2009 | 54 | 95 |
| 2010 | 72 | 93 |
| 2011 | 81 | 65 |
| 2012 | 89 | 95 |
| 2013 | 91 | 133 |
| 2014 | 139 | 164 |
| 2015 | 110 | 182 |
| 2016 | 144 | 175 |
| 2017 | 142 | 158 |
| 2018 | 135 | 143 |
| 2019 | 144 | 122 |
| 2020 | 151 | 185 |
| 2021 | 143 | 178 |
| 2022 | 160 | 196 |
| 2023 | 181 | 171 |
| 2024 | 161 | 165 |
| 2025 | 145 | 131 |
| 2026 | 81 | 124 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Dynamic audio normalization process8 Sep 2026US 12,732,148 B2Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Systems and methods to handle queries comprising a media quote1 Sep 2026US 12,726,674 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Information processing system, information processing device, information processing method, and information processing program1 Sep 2026US 12,726,686 B2Kpi Solutions Co., Ltd.
- Attention based audio experience in streaming of live events25 Aug 2026US 12,720,130 B2Adeia Guides Inc.
- Private listening system for streaming audio and video25 Aug 2026US 12,720,143 B2Roku, Inc.
- Leveraging Audio Matches to Improve Visual Matching Recall Between Video Content Items8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313192 A1Google Inc.
- Failure Recovery of Wearable Playback Device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313313 A1Sonos, Inc.
- Realtime wireless synchronization of live event audio stream with a video recording8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314022 A1Bygge Technologies Inc.
- Immersive audio in a media playback system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303676 A1Sonos, Inc.
- Media content posting method and apparatus, and device and storage medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303885 A1Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for providing content, management, and interactivity for client devices1,890US 7,130,616 B2Simple Devices · 2006
- System and method for request, delivery and use of multimedia files for audiovisual entertainment in the home environment1,801US 6,778,869 B2Sony Corporation · 2004
- Multi-room entertainment system with in-room media player/dispenser1,755US 6,256,554 B12001
- Connected audio and other media objects859US 6,505,160 B1Digimarc Corporation · 2003
- Audiovisual reproduction system604US 8,074,253 B1TouchTunes Music Corporation · 2011