H04S 7/00
Indicating arrangements
Official title: Indicating arrangements; Control arrangements, e.g. balance control
H04S7/00 (Indicating arrangements) appears on 7,811 US grants and 9,573 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04S- Granted patents
- 7,811
- Published applications
- 9,573
- Assignees
- 1,538
- Inventors
- 10,389
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 3 | 0 |
| 1984 | 4 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 4 | 0 |
| 1987 | 8 | 0 |
| 1988 | 3 | 0 |
| 1989 | 7 | 0 |
| 1990 | 6 | 0 |
| 1991 | 13 | 0 |
| 1992 | 12 | 0 |
| 1993 | 15 | 0 |
| 1994 | 9 | 0 |
| 1995 | 10 | 0 |
| 1996 | 17 | 0 |
| 1997 | 22 | 0 |
| 1998 | 25 | 0 |
| 1999 | 11 | 0 |
| 2000 | 17 | 0 |
| 2001 | 12 | 16 |
| 2002 | 11 | 38 |
| 2003 | 14 | 49 |
| 2004 | 26 | 56 |
| 2005 | 30 | 100 |
| 2006 | 44 | 117 |
| 2007 | 35 | 122 |
| 2008 | 44 | 152 |
| 2009 | 48 | 139 |
| 2010 | 80 | 132 |
| 2011 | 98 | 166 |
| 2012 | 180 | 187 |
| 2013 | 130 | 207 |
| 2014 | 152 | 258 |
| 2015 | 218 | 364 |
| 2016 | 321 | 470 |
| 2017 | 490 | 499 |
| 2018 | 578 | 608 |
| 2019 | 665 | 687 |
| 2020 | 716 | 697 |
| 2021 | 626 | 765 |
| 2022 | 633 | 746 |
| 2023 | 656 | 817 |
| 2024 | 702 | 865 |
| 2025 | 692 | 744 |
| 2026 | 402 | 572 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Signaling for rendering tools6 Oct 2026US 12,755,744 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Method and apparatus for estimating spatial content of soundfield at desired location6 Oct 2026US 12,756,978 B2
- Visualization and customization of sound space6 Oct 2026US 12,756,984 B2Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Audio playing method and related apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,756,985 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Colorless generation of elevation perceptual cues using all-pass filter networks6 Oct 2026US 12,756,986 B2Boomcloud 360, Inc.
- A method, device, system, and software for a computer-implemented method for playback of game audio by use of representative audio objects at runtime8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306950 A1Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
- Method and device for decoding an audio soundfield representation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311709 A1Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
- Performing common audio convolutions using iso-trajectories in three dimensional (3d) space8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313308 A1Google Inc.
- Virtual sound sources and rendering techniques8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313309 A1Dolby International AB
- Audio Scene Description and Control8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313310 A1Apple Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for controlling multimedia players in a multi-zone system2,132US 7,571,014 B1Sonos, Inc. · 2009
- Unification of multimedia devices1,620US 7,987,294 B2Altec Lansing Australia Pty Limited · 2011
- System and method for calibration of an acoustic system1,614US 7,630,501 B2Microsoft Corporation · 2009
- User interfaces for controlling and manipulating groupings in a multi-zone media system670US 8,290,603 B1Sonos, Inc. · 2012
- Shaping sound responsive to speaker orientation476US 9,042,556 B2Sonos, Inc. · 2015