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G06V 10/34

Smoothing or thinning of the pattern; Morphological operations; Skeletonisation

Introduced: January 2022

Full Title

Arrangements for image or video recognition or understanding > Image preprocessing > Smoothing or thinning of the pattern; Morphological operations; Skeletonisation

Classification Context

Section:
PHYSICS
Class:
COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
Subclass:
IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

Filing statistics

IPC G06V 10/34 belongs to the parent subclass G06V, which recorded 380,096 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 4,213 in 2013 to 101,211 in 2023 (+2302%). 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

skeletonisation process of shrinking a shape to a connected sequence of lines, which are equidistant to the boundaries of the shape.

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