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G06V 40/20

Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition (recognition of facial expressions G06V40/16)

Introduced: January 2022

Title

Titles differ between systems:

IPC: Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition

CPC: Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition (recognition of facial expressions G06V40/16)

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

Recognition of biometric, human-related or animal-related patterns in image or video data > Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition

CPC:

Recognition of biometric, human-related or animal-related patterns in image or video data > Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition (recognition of facial expressions G06V40/16)

Additional Content IPC

Glossary

dynamic gesture dynamic gestures movement of the hand encoding a certain meaning gait recognition recognising a person’s manner of walking. static gesture static gestures posture of a hand denoting a certain meaning

Limiting references

Facial expression recognition

Of 2 combined children, 0 exist in both systems.

2 codes are CPC-only extensions.

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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