H04N 5/262
Studio circuits
Official title: Studio circuits, e.g. for mixing, switching-over, change of character of image, other special effects {; Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects}
H04N5/262 (Studio circuits) appears on 11,065 US grants and 11,756 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 11,065
- Published applications
- 11,756
- Assignees
- 2,704
- Inventors
- 18,449
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 12 | 0 |
| 1977 | 8 | 0 |
| 1978 | 9 | 0 |
| 1979 | 13 | 0 |
| 1980 | 24 | 0 |
| 1981 | 22 | 0 |
| 1982 | 12 | 0 |
| 1983 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1991 | 58 | 0 |
| 1992 | 63 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 75 | 0 |
| 1998 | 98 | 0 |
| 1999 | 92 | 0 |
| 2000 | 86 | 0 |
| 2001 | 157 | 55 |
| 2002 | 131 | 126 |
| 2003 | 97 | 147 |
| 2004 | 106 | 264 |
| 2005 | 101 | 314 |
| 2006 | 169 | 256 |
| 2007 | 180 | 259 |
| 2008 | 150 | 259 |
| 2009 | 211 | 349 |
| 2010 | 235 | 319 |
| 2011 | 222 | 283 |
| 2012 | 245 | 295 |
| 2013 | 274 | 511 |
| 2014 | 404 | 447 |
| 2015 | 488 | 655 |
| 2016 | 542 | 725 |
| 2017 | 606 | 682 |
| 2018 | 596 | 664 |
| 2019 | 678 | 713 |
| 2020 | 758 | 730 |
| 2021 | 664 | 737 |
| 2022 | 626 | 739 |
| 2023 | 677 | 893 |
| 2024 | 636 | 690 |
| 2025 | 652 | 418 |
| 2026 | 344 | 226 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04N 5/2628Alteration of picture size, shape, position or orientation3,359
- H04N 5/272Means for inserting a foreground image in a background image, i.e. inlay2,557
- H04N 5/265Mixing2,489
- H04N 5/2621Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects during image1,302
- H04N 5/268Signal distribution or switching849
- H04N 5/2624For obtaining an image which is composed of whole input images763
- H04N 5/2625For obtaining an image which is composed of images from a temporal402
- H04N 5/278Subtitling283
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