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G06T 7/00

Image analysis

Introduced: January 1995

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Glossary

Feature features a significant image region or pixel with certain characteristics, for example a feature point, landmark, edge, corner or blob, typically determined by image operators. Image analysis the extraction of information from images through the use of image processing techniques acting upon image data, such as intensity, colour, motion and spatial frequency characteristics.

Application references

Computed tomography Signal processing for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) imaging systems Scenes; Scene-specific elements Character recognition; Recognising digital ink; Document-oriented image-based pattern recognition Recognition of biometric, human-related or animal-related patterns in image or video data Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like Transforming light or analogous information into electric information using solid-state image sensors Stereoscopic television systems Methods of arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals

Of 11 combined children, 9 exist in both systems.

2 codes are CPC-only extensions.

4 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.

IPC defines codes here since 1995.

Child Classifications

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  • G06T 7/90 Determination of colour characteristics since 2017 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
  • G06T 7/97 CPC only CPC only

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