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G06F 18/211

Selection of the most significant subset of features

Introduced: January 2023

Full Title

Pattern recognition > Analysing > Design or setup of recognition systems or techniques; Extraction of features in feature space; Blind source separation > Selection of the most significant subset of features

IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 3 subcodes exist in both systems.

IPC defines codes here since 2023.

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  • G06F 18/2111 by using evolutionary computational techniques, e.g. genetic algorithms since 2023 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G06F 18/2113 by ranking or filtering the set of features, e.g. using a measure of variance or of feature cross-correlation since 2023 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G06F 18/2115 by evaluating different subsets according to an optimisation criterion, e.g. class separability, forward selection or backward elimination since 2023 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC

Top Applicants

Top Applicants (IPC)

Class G06,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 66,669
  2. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,313
  3. MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 41,918
  4. GOOGLE US 32,969
  5. SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 30,822
  6. INTEL CORPORATION US 30,010
  7. TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 28,235
  8. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 26,079
  9. APPLE US 21,891
  10. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,505

Top Applicants (CPC)

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