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G06V 40/00

Recognition of biometric, human-related or animal-related patterns in image or video data

Introduced: January 2022

Additional Content IPC

Glossary

gesture gestures posture or hand movement denoting a certain meaning, e.g. deaf sign language.

Application references

Means to switch the anti-theft system of vehicles on or off, using biometry User authentication using biometric data for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity Identity check of a pass holder for individual registration on entry or exit using biometric data Identity check for individual registration on entry or exit without a pass using biometric data Acquiring the identification of end-users of distributed media content using their biometric characteristics

IPC and CPC are identically structured here. All 7 subcodes exist in both systems.

1 shared codes have differing titles between IPC and CPC.

IPC defines codes here since 2022.

Child Classifications

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  • G06V 40/70 Multimodal biometrics, e.g. combining information from different biometric modalities since 2022 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