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

Introduced: January 2022

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 40/10 Human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or pedestrians; Body parts, e.g. hands since 2022 +4 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
G06V 40/20 Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition (recognition of facial expressions G06V40/16) since 2022 +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
G06V 40/30 Writer recognition; Reading and verifying signatures since 2022 +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
G06V 40/40 Spoof detection, e.g. liveness detection since 2022 +1 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
G06V 40/50 Maintenance of biometric data or enrolment thereof since 2022 +3 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
G06V 40/60 Static or dynamic means for assisting the user to position a body part for biometric acquisition since 2022 +2 CPC IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC
G06V 40/70 Multimodal biometrics, e.g. combining information from different biometric modalities since 2022 IPC+CPC Available in IPC and CPC