H04N 5/50
Tuning indicators
Official title: Tuning indicators; Automatic tuning control
H04N5/50 (Tuning indicators) appears on 1,681 US grants and 1,846 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 1,681
- Published applications
- 1,846
- Assignees
- 437
- Inventors
- 2,824
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 9 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 39 | 22 |
| 2002 | 40 | 77 |
| 2003 | 32 | 86 |
| 2004 | 42 | 100 |
| 2005 | 23 | 108 |
| 2006 | 59 | 141 |
| 2007 | 52 | 151 |
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| 2009 | 64 | 129 |
| 2010 | 99 | 120 |
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| 2023 | 17 | 19 |
| 2024 | 20 | 12 |
| 2025 | 14 | 6 |
| 2026 | 7 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Method and tuner controller for closed-loop antenna tuning based on calibration data and relative transducer gain maximization10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270499 A1Mediatek Inc.
- Systems and methods for executing a supplemental function for a natural language query13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236524 A1Adeia Guides Inc.
- Systems and method for providing video on demand in an intelligent television6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227864 A1Multimedia Technologies Pte, Ltd
- Case for a vapor provision device23 Jul 2026US 2026/0214181 A1Nicoventures Trading Limited
- Information management apparatus, information management method, and program2 Apr 2026US 2026/0095542 A1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electronic television program guide schedule system and method with data feed access1,287US 5,589,892 A1996
- Virtual personal channel in a television system689US 5,534,911 A1996
- Electronic television program guide schedule system and method with pop-up hints677US 5,822,123 A1998
- Electronic television program guide schedule system and method including virtual channels670US 5,585,866 A1996
- System and method for providing television services654US 5,818,438 ABellSouth Corporation · 1998