DIFF Subgroup
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.
Child Classifications
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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 3/4038 Image mosaicing, e.g. composing plane images from plane sub-images since 2024 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
- G06T 3/4053 based on super-resolution, i.e. the output image resolution being higher than the sensor resolution 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
- 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