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G06V 30/00

Character recognition; Recognising digital ink; Document-oriented image-based pattern recognition

Introduced: January 2022

Classification Context

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

Filing statistics

IPC G06V 30/00 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

OCR optical character recognition, recognising a machine printed symbol or character based on an image offline handwriting recognition recognising a handwritten symbol or character based on an image, i.e. without any temporal information. The difference with respect to OCR is that the symbols or characters are handwritten. online handwriting recognition recognising a handwritten symbol or character based on time-series of handwritten coordinates, i.e. with temporal information. strokes stroke basic components of characters that are either separated spatially and/or temporally, e.g. contiguous segments left by a writing instrument during handwriting

Limiting references

Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like

Application references

Sorting of mail or documents using means for detecting the destination Input arrangements for interaction between user and computer Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable

Related Keywords

identification or recognition of LETTER(S)recognition of SYMBOLS

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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