H05B 47/197
Sound control or voice control
Official title: {Sound control or voice control}
H05B47/197 (Sound control or voice control) appears on 454 US grants and 531 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H05B- Granted patents
- 454
- Published applications
- 531
- Assignees
- 193
- Inventors
- 796
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2019 | 70 | 61 |
| 2020 | 51 | 47 |
| 2021 | 42 | 25 |
| 2022 | 17 | 14 |
| 2023 | 24 | 16 |
| 2024 | 13 | 25 |
| 2025 | 19 | 20 |
| 2026 | 14 | 16 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Decorative device, control circuit, and control method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292962 A1
- Direction and request-based vehicle illumination13 Aug 2026US 2026/0239517 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Controlling a set of devices by a voice-controlled device23 Jul 2026US 2026/0212862 A1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Lighting device adjustment method, lighting device and storage medium23 Jul 2026US 2026/0214770 A1Shenzhen Mango Science and Technology Innovation Co., Ltd.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods and apparatus for controlling devices in a networked lighting system584US 6,608,453 B2Color Kinetics Incorporated · 2003
- Wireless lighting devices and applications246US 8,033,686 B2Wireless Environment, LLC · 2011
- Illumination control network241US 8,035,320 B22011
- Adaptive remote controller211US 6,791,467 B1Flextronics Semiconductor Inc. · 2004
- Bowling center lighting system190US 6,031,343 ABrunswick Bowling & Billiards Corporation · 2000