H04N 2201/3261
Of multimedia information
Official title: of multimedia information, e.g. a sound signal
H04N2201/3261 (Of multimedia information) appears on 1,232 US grants and 1,213 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 1,232
- Published applications
- 1,213
- Assignees
- 256
- Inventors
- 1,621
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 5 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 10 | 0 |
| 1998 | 23 | 0 |
| 1999 | 17 | 0 |
| 2000 | 23 | 0 |
| 2001 | 23 | 22 |
| 2002 | 25 | 48 |
| 2003 | 26 | 74 |
| 2004 | 40 | 95 |
| 2005 | 32 | 115 |
| 2006 | 63 | 99 |
| 2007 | 56 | 63 |
| 2008 | 71 | 96 |
| 2009 | 69 | 116 |
| 2010 | 87 | 96 |
| 2011 | 116 | 56 |
| 2012 | 75 | 52 |
| 2013 | 39 | 77 |
| 2014 | 61 | 40 |
| 2015 | 71 | 36 |
| 2016 | 32 | 19 |
| 2017 | 24 | 31 |
| 2018 | 20 | 19 |
| 2019 | 23 | 10 |
| 2020 | 12 | 11 |
| 2021 | 13 | 11 |
| 2022 | 11 | 10 |
| 2023 | 7 | 6 |
| 2024 | 4 | 5 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 |
| 2026 | 5 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Content management for virtual tours22 Sep 2026US 12,744,855 B2Virtually Anywhere Interactive, LLC
- System and method for encoding image data and other data types into one data format and decoding of same4 Aug 2026US 12,701,278 B2C-Hear, Inc.
- Electronic apparatus and communication apparatus17 Mar 2026US 12,581,020 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Data creation method and data creation program17 Mar 2026US 12,581,022 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Search engines and systems with handheld document data capture devices3 Feb 2026US RE50,778 E1KYOCERA Corporation
- Data creation method and data creation program25 Jun 2026US 2026/0181094 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- System for image acquisition, annotation, and use2 Apr 2026US 2026/0093902 A1FMV Innovations, LLC
- Conversion of nontextual data to textual data for printing5 Mar 2026US 2026/0064326 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and information processing method29 Jan 2026US 2026/0032208 A1FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
- Communication apparatus and control method11 Sep 2025US 2025/0286978 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for recording, communicating and administering digital images1,305US 6,038,295 ASiemens Aktiengesellschaft · 2000
- Television system for the interactive distribution of selectable video presentations762US 5,014,125 ACableshare, Inc. · 1991
- Electronic still camera for capturing and categorizing images510US 5,633,678 AEastman Kodak Company · 1997
- System for audio/video presentation415US 4,905,094 ATelaction Corporation · 1990
- Processing techniques for text capture from a rendered document396US 7,818,215 B2Exbiblio B. V. · 2010