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G06T 5/77

Retouching; Inpainting; Scratch removal

Introduced: January 2024

Full Title

Image enhancement or restoration > Retouching; Inpainting; Scratch removal

Classification Context

Section:
PHYSICS
Class:
COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
Subclass:
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL

Filing statistics

IPC G06T 5/77 belongs to the parent subclass G06T, which recorded 689,851 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 27,180 in 2013 to 103,590 in 2023 (+281%). The most active applicants in class G06 are SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (66,669 applications), IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) (62,313 applications) and MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING (41,918 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings

Additional Content

Picture signal generating by scanning motion picture films or slide opaques, e.g. for telecine Noise processing, e.g. detecting, correcting, reducing, or removing noise in circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor 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