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G06V 10/20

Image preprocessing

Full Title

Arrangements for image or video recognition or understanding (character recognition in images or video G06V30/10) > Image preprocessing

Filing statistics

CPC G06V 10/20 belongs to the parent subclass G06V, which recorded 580,901 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 14,254 in 2013 to 97,793 in 2023 (+586%). The most active applicants in class G06 are SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (76,952 applications), IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) (62,841 applications) and MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING (44,778 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings

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Child Classifications

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  • G06V 10/25 Determination of region of interest [ROI] or a volume of interest [VOI]
  • G06V 10/28 Quantising the image, e.g. histogram thresholding for discrimination between background and foreground patterns
  • G06V 10/30 Noise filtering
  • G06V 10/32 Normalisation of the pattern dimensions
  • G06V 10/34 Smoothing or thinning of the pattern; Morphological operations; Skeletonisation
  • G06V 10/36 Applying a local operator, i.e. means to operate on image points situated in the vicinity of a given point; Non-linear local filtering operations, e.g. median filtering

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G06, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 76,952
  2. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,841
  3. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 44,778
  4. GOOGLE US 35,735
  5. INTEL CORPORATION US 32,087
  6. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 30,572
  7. TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 25,023
  8. APPLE US 23,482
  9. SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 22,548
  10. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,917