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G10H 2240/201

Physical layer or hardware aspects of transmission to or from an electrophonic musical instrument, e.g. voltage levels, bit streams, code words or symbols over a physical link connecting network nodes or instruments

Full Title

Data organisation or data communication aspects, specifically adapted for electrophonic musical tools or instruments > Transmission of musical instrument data, control or status information; Transmission, remote access or control of music data for electrophonic musical instruments > Physical layer or hardware aspects of transmission to or from an electrophonic musical instrument, e.g. voltage levels, bit streams, code words or symbols over a physical link connecting network nodes or instruments

Filing statistics

CPC G10H 2240/201 belongs to the parent subclass G10H, which recorded 17,124 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 1,186 in 2013 to 1,533 in 2023 (+29%), peaking at 1,888 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class G10 are SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (6,277 applications), GOOGLE (5,429 applications) and FRAUNHOFER (4,984 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings

13 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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  • G10H 2240/205 Synchronous transmission of an analog or digital signal, e.g. according to a specific intrinsic timing, or according to a separate clock
  • G10H 2240/211 Wireless transmission, e.g. of music parameters or control data by radio, infrared or ultrasound
  • G10H 2240/215 Spread spectrum, i.e. transmission on a bandwidth considerably larger than the frequency content of the original information
  • G10H 2240/221 Time division multiplexing, with different channels in different time slots, the data in the time slots may be in digital or analog form
  • G10H 2240/225 Frequency division multiplexing
  • G10H 2240/231 Quadrature modulation, e.g. QAM
  • G10H 2240/235 Pulse amplitude modulation, e.g. quantized or analog
  • G10H 2240/255 Optical fibre transmission for electrophonic musical instrument purposes, e.g. hum mitigation
  • G10H 2240/261 Satellite transmission for musical instrument purposes, e.g. processing for mitigation of satellite transmission delays
  • G10H 2240/265 CATV transmission, i.e. electrophonic musical instruments connected to community antennas or cable television networks
  • G10H 2240/271 Serial transmission according to any one of RS-232 standards for serial binary single-ended data and control signals between a DTE and a DCE
  • G10H 2240/275 Musical interface to a personal computer PCI bus, "peripheral component interconnect bus"

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G10, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 6,277
  2. GOOGLE US 5,429
  3. FRAUNHOFER DE 4,984
  4. SONY CORPORATION JP 2,808
  5. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 2,577
  6. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 2,382
  7. DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION US 2,123
  8. QUALCOMM US 2,117
  9. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 2,049
  10. AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES US 1,924