H04N 2201/04715
By detecting marks or the like
Official title: by detecting marks or the like, e.g. slits
H04N2201/04715 (By detecting marks or the like) appears on 772 US grants and 331 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 772
- Published applications
- 331
- Assignees
- 214
- Inventors
- 1,258
- Latest grant
- 16 Dec 2025
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| 2002 | 33 | 23 |
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| 2023 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 |
| 2026 | 0 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for performing a task on a material, or locating the position of a device relative to the surface of the material16 Dec 2025US 12,496,739 B2Shaper Tools, Inc.
- Scanner and production method for printing apparatus21 Jan 2025US 12,202,255 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Reading device setting reading start position by reading reference hole having L-shape9 Jan 2024US 11,870,958 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Systems and methods for performing a task on a material, or locating the position of a device relative to the surface of the material21 Nov 2023US 11,820,036 B2Shaper Tools, Inc.
- Position sensing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and position detection method16 May 2023US 11,652,939 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Image reading apparatus and control method of image reading apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313056 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Scanning device and homing method of scanning device11 Jun 2026US 2026/0163990 A1Kinpo Electronics, Inc.
- Systems and methods for performing a task on a material, or locating the position of a device relative to the surface of the material22 Jan 2026US 2026/0021603 A1Shaper Tools, Inc.
- Image forming system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and image forming method25 Sep 2025US 2025/0298553 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Image forming apparatus capable of sensing amount of misalignment between position of image forming portion and position of imaging portion, and sensing method31 Jul 2025US 2025/0247483 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fully automatic rapid microscope slide scanner312US 6,711,283 B1Aperio Technologies, Inc. · 2004
- Universal computer input device237US 5,420,943 A1995
- Manual copying apparatus218US 4,868,676 AShapr Kabushiki Kaisha · 1989
- Adaptive image acquisition system198US 4,949,391 AEverex Ti Corporation · 1990
- Electronic microcopier apparatus189US 4,523,235 A1985