IPC Main Group
H04N 7/00 Television systems
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2011
Classification Context
- Section:
- ELECTRICITY
- Class:
- ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
- Subclass:
- PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
Additional Content
Limiting references
Scanning details of television systems; Combination thereof with generation of supply voltages Details of television systems Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals Selective content distribution
Application references
Colour television systems Stereoscopic television systems
14 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- H04N 7/01 Conversion of standards
- H04N 7/015 High-definition television systems
- H04N 7/025 Systems for transmission of digital non-picture data, e.g. of text during the active part of a television frame
- H04N 7/04 Systems for the transmission of one television signal, i.e. both picture and sound, by a single carrier
- H04N 7/06 Systems for the simultaneous transmission of one television signal, i.e. both picture and sound, by more than one carrier
- H04N 7/08 Systems for the simultaneous or sequential transmission of more than one television signal, e.g. additional information signals, the signals occupying wholly or partially the same frequency band
- H04N 7/1 Adaptations for transmission by electrical cable
- H04N 7/12 Systems in which the television signal is transmitted one channel or a plurality of parallel channels, the bandwidth of each channel being less than the bandwidth of the television signal
- H04N 7/14 Systems for two-way working
- H04N 7/16 Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems
- H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
- H04N 7/2 Adaptations for transmission via a GHz frequency band, e.g. via satellite
- H04N 7/22 Adaptations for optical transmission
- H04N 7/24 Systems for the transmission of television signals using pulse code modulation
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class H04, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- QUALCOMM US 97,396
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 96,502
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 86,981
- TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) SE 55,869
- HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 55,349
- LG ELECTRONICS KR 53,649
- CANON 33,341
- SONY CORPORATION JP 32,761
- ZTE CORPORATION CN 32,274
- GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION 28,327