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G06T 3/40

Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting

Introduced: January 1995

Full Title

Geometric image transformations in the plane of the image > Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting

Additional Content IPC

Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming

IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 9 subcodes exist in both systems.

1 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.

IPC defines codes here since 2024.

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  • G06T 3/4007 based on interpolation, e.g. bilinear interpolation (image demosaicing G06T3/4015; edge-driven or edge-based scaling G06T3/403) since 2024 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G06T 3/4015 Image demosaicing, e.g. colour filter arrays [CFA] or Bayer patterns since 2024 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G06T 3/4023 based on decimating pixels or lines of pixels; based on inserting pixels or lines of pixels since 2024 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G06T 3/403 Edge-driven scaling; Edge-based scaling since 2024 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G06T 3/4038 Image mosaicing, e.g. composing plane images from plane sub-images since 2024 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G06T 3/4046 using neural networks since 2024 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G06T 3/4084 in the transform domain, e.g. fast Fourier transform [FFT] domain scaling since 2024 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G06T 3/4092 Image resolution transcoding, e.g. by using client-server architectures since 2024 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