G06K GRAPHICAL DATA READING (image or video recognition or understanding G06V); PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
Introduced: September 1968
Description
G06K encompasses technologies for reading, interpreting, and displaying graphical data, along with the physical media and mechanisms for storing and handling recorded information. This subclass covers optical character recognition (OCR), bar code and QR code reading, image processing for data extraction, and display systems for presenting visual information. It also includes mechanical and electronic systems for handling physical record carriers such as magnetic tapes, optical discs, and card readers. Adjacent subclasses address pure image processing (G06T) and specialized computing architectures (G06F), whereas G06K focuses specifically on the interface between graphical/recorded data and computational systems.
Title
Titles differ between systems:
IPC: GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
CPC: GRAPHICAL DATA READING (image or video recognition or understanding G06V); PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
Full Title
Full titles differ between systems:
GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
GRAPHICAL DATA READING (image or video recognition or understanding G06V); PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
Additional Content IPC
Glossary
record carrier record carriers means a body, such as a cylinder, disc, card, tape, or wire, capable of permanently holding information, which can be read-off by a sensing element movable relative to the recorded information or by electrical contacting or non-contacting means data is a synonym for information
Application references
Postal sorting Hand-held input or output devices for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by a digital computer, e.g. light-pens, joysticks, mice or trackballs
Of 12 combined children, 10 exist in both systems.
2 codes are CPC-only extensions.
Note: 2 CPC extensions are marked as secondary classification only.
7 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.
Child Classifications
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- G06K 1/00 Methods or arrangements for marking the record carrier in digital fashion IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G06K 11/00 Methods or arrangements for graph-reading or for converting the pattern of mechanical parameters, e.g. force or presence, into electrical signal (feelers for copying devices on machine tools B23Q35/00; arrangements for measuring areas G01B; measuring force G01L; adapted as input devices to computers G06F3/00; combined with pattern recognition G06F18/00; arrangements for image or video recognition or understanding G06V10/00; character recognition, recognising digital ink or document-oriented image-based pattern recognition G06V30/00; systems for transmitting the position of an object with respect to a predetermined reference system, e.g. tele-autographic system, G08C21/00) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G06K 13/00 Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism (conveying record carriers combined with another operation, e.g. with reading G06K17/00) IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G06K 15/00 Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data (printing or plotting combined with another operation, e.g. with conveying, G06K17/00) +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G06K 17/00 Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations +4 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G06K 19/00 Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G06K 21/00 Information retrieval from punched cards designed for manual use or handling by machine (G06K19/00 takes precedence; detection or correction of errors by rescanning patterns G06V10/98; checking correct operation of card-conveying mechanisms G06K13/06); Apparatus for handling such cards, e.g. marking or correcting +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G06K 2215/00 Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data 2nd only +4 CPC CPC only CPC only
- G06K 3/00 Methods or arrangements for printing of data in the shape of alphanumeric or other characters from a record carrier, e.g. interpreting, printing-out from a magnetic tape IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G06K 5/00 Methods or arrangements for verifying the correctness of markings on a record carrier; Column detection devices IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G06K 7/00 Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, (methods or arrangements for marking the record carrier in digital fashion G06K1/00; pattern recognition G06F18/00; arrangements for image or video recognition or understanding G06V10/00; character recognition, recognising digital ink or document-oriented image-based pattern recognition G06V30/00) +4 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
Top Applicants
Top Applicants (IPC)
Class G06,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 66,669
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,313
- MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 41,918
- GOOGLE US 32,969
- SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 30,822
- INTEL CORPORATION US 30,010
- TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 28,235
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 26,079
- APPLE US 21,891
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,505
Top Applicants (CPC)
Class G06,2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 76,952
- IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 62,841
- MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 44,778
- GOOGLE US 35,735
- INTEL CORPORATION US 32,087
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 30,572
- TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY 25,023
- APPLE US 23,482
- SGCC(STATE GRID CORPORATION OF CHINA) 22,548
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 20,917