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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 7/06 Systems for the simultaneous transmission of one television signal, i.e. both picture and sound, by more than one carrier
  • 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 7/18 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

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class H04, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. QUALCOMM US 97,396
  2. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 96,502
  3. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 86,981
  4. TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) SE 55,869
  5. HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY 55,349
  6. LG ELECTRONICS KR 53,649
  7. CANON 33,341
  8. SONY CORPORATION JP 32,761
  9. ZTE CORPORATION CN 32,274
  10. GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION 28,327