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G06V 20/00

Scenes; Scene-specific elements

Introduced: January 2022

Classification Context

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

Filing statistics

IPC G06V 20/00 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

Glossary

scene scenes visual representation of the world or of some elements of it, as captured by a sensor or generated by a computer

Limiting references

Devices for controlling television cameras, e.g. remote control

10 direct subcodes

Child Classifications

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  • G06V 20/05 Underwater scenes
  • G06V 20/2 in augmented reality scenes
  • G06V 20/3 in albums, collections or shared content, e.g. social network photos or video
  • G06V 20/4 in video content
  • G06V 20/7 Labelling scene content, e.g. deriving syntactic or semantic representations
  • G06V 20/8 Recognising image objects characterised by unique random patterns
  • G06V 20/9 Identifying an image sensor based on its output data

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