H04N 9/641
Multi-purpose receivers
Official title: {Multi-purpose receivers, e.g. for auxiliary information (H04N9/642 takes precedence)}
H04N9/641 (Multi-purpose receivers) appears on 805 US grants and 398 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 805
- Published applications
- 398
- Assignees
- 258
- Inventors
- 1,179
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Adaptive transfer function for video encoding and decoding15 Sep 2026US 12,739,397 B2Apple Inc.
- Transmitting device, transmitting method, receiving device, and receiving method23 Sep 2025US 12,425,656 B2Saturn Licensing LLC
- Adaptive transfer function for video encoding and decoding4 Mar 2025US 12,244,820 B2Apple Inc.
- Information processing apparatus, information processing terminal, method, and model24 Sep 2024US 12,101,566 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Transmitting device, transmitting method, receiving device, and receiving method7 Feb 2023US 11,575,866 B2Saturn Licensing LLC
- Transmitting device, transmitting method, receiving device, and receiving method26 Feb 2026US 2026/0059069 A1Saturn Licensing LLC
- Method for preventing clipping in sl-hdrx systems8 Jan 2026US 2026/0010992 A1InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS
- Adaptive Transfer Function for Video Encoding and Decoding15 May 2025US 2025/0159190 A1Apple Inc.
- Information processing apparatus, information processing terminal, method, program, and model27 Apr 2023US 2023/0128220 A1Sony Group Corporation
- Transmitting device, transmitting method, receiving device, and receiving method6 Apr 2023US 2023/0104968 A1Saturn Licensing LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Video monitoring and conferencing system518US 5,625,410 A1997
- Hand held remote control device with trigger button470US 5,724,106 AGateway 2000, Inc. · 1998
- TV Graphics and mixing control373US 4,218,698 ARCA Corporation · 1980
- Electronic programming guide323US 6,421,067 B1Isurftv · 2002
- Hybrid home-entertainment system305US 5,722,041 AAltec Lansing Technologies, Inc. · 1998