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Photography and imaging Patent Leaders in 2017 2017

Primary CPC class G03 · Section G

Rankings count each patent once by its primary Cooperative Patent Classification. All-time pages aggregate the full database; year pages use patent grant year.

Recent years: 2016201720182019202020212022202320242025

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5,566 patents in 2014.peak 5,5661996: 3,202 patents19961997: 3,117 patents1998: 4,137 patents1999: 3,884 patents19992000: 3,734 patents2001: 3,636 patents2002: 3,537 patents20022003: 3,588 patents2004: 3,651 patents2005: 2,993 patents20052006: 3,771 patents2007: 3,608 patents2008: 3,719 patents20082009: 3,851 patents2010: 5,032 patents2011: 5,097 patents20112012: 5,123 patents2013: 5,276 patents2014: 5,566 patents20142015: 5,436 patents2016: 4,959 patents2017: 4,013 patents20172018: 3,942 patents2019: 4,085 patents2020: 3,862 patents20202021: 3,492 patents2022: 3,140 patents2023: 2,928 patents20232024: 2,754 patents2025: 2,784 patents2025

Top Inventors

Rank ↑ Inventor ↕ Patents ↕ Primary Company ↕
1 Shougo Sato 52 Brother Kogyo
2 Yuichi Shibazaki 23 Nikon
3 Kenji Ishii 22 Ricoh Company
#4 Anthony Yen 20 TSMC
#5 Hiroshi Yoshinaga 19 Ricoh Company
#6 Jeng-Horng Chen 19 TSMC
#7 Jun Hatakeyama 19 Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.
#8 Sjoerd Nicolaas Lambertus Donders 19 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#9 Takahito Ueno 18 Canon
#10 Koji Ichikawa 17 Sumitomo Chemical
#11 Masanari Morioka 17 Canon
#12 Shigeo Miyabe 17 Canon
#13 Shinn-Sheng Yu 17 TSMC
#14 Erik Roelof Loopstra 16 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#15 Hiromasa Takagi 16 Ricoh Company
#16 Ippei Fujimoto 16 Ricoh Company
#17 Michael Patra 16 Carl Zeiss Smt Gmbh
#18 Markus Deguenther 15 Carl Zeiss Smt Gmbh
#19 Christiaan Alexander Hoogendam 14 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#20 Takayuki Seki 14 Ricoh Company
#21 Hans Jansen 13 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#22 Kazuhito Kishi 13 Ricoh Company
#23 Kazuhiro Yamauchi 13 Canon
#24 Takamasa Hase 13 Ricoh Company
#25 Takashi Seto 13 Ricoh Company
#26 Yasuo Fukamachi 13 Brother Kogyo
#27 Yen-Cheng Lu 13 TSMC
#28 Hiroki Mori 12 Brother Kogyo
#29 Johannes Catharinus Hubertus Mulkens 12 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#30 Junpei Fujita 12 Ricoh Company
#31 Kazuki Yogosawa 12 Ricoh Company
#32 Koji Abe 12 Ube Industries
#33 Naohiro Kumagai 12 Ricoh Company
#34 Toshihiko Shimokawa 12 Ricoh Company
#35 Yuuji Wada 12 Ricoh Company
#36 Ching-Yu Chang 11 TSMC
#37 Frank Schlesener 11 Carl Zeiss Smt Gmbh
#38 Junichi Hashimoto 11 Brother Kogyo
#39 Kazunari Sawada 11 Ricoh Company
#40 Kenji Sugiura 11 Ricoh Company
#41 Seiichi Kogure 11 Ricoh Company
#42 Tatsuya Ohsugi 11 Ricoh Company
#43 Tsuyoshi Sugimoto 11 Ricoh Company
#44 Akira Suzuki 10 Ricoh Company
#45 Bob Streefkerk 10 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#46 Hiroyoshi Haga 10 Ricoh Company
#47 Ingo Saenger 10 Carl Zeiss Smt Gmbh
#48 Jeroen Johannes Sophia Maria Mertens 10 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#49 Johannes Jacobus Matheus Baselmans 10 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#50 Johannes Ruoff 10 Carl Zeiss Smt Gmbh
#51 Kazuya Saito 10 Ricoh Company
#52 Masataka Kawahara 10 Canon
#53 Masato Tanaka 10 Canon
#54 Naoya Isono 10 Canon
#55 Shinya Nakayama 10 Ricoh Company
#56 Takehide Mizutani 10 Ricoh Company
#57 Takuya Seshita 10 Ricoh Company
#58 Yasuhiko Ogino 10 Ricoh Company
#59 Chih-Tsung Shih 9 TSMC
#60 Daisuke Eto 9 Kyocera Document Solutions
#61 Daisuke Tanaka 9 Canon
#62 Hirokazu Ishii 9 Ricoh Company
#63 Hideo Kanai 9 Ricoh Company
#64 Kei Ishida 9 Brother Kogyo
#65 Michel Riepen 9 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#66 Motoaki Mushika 9 Brother Kogyo
#67 Satoru Nishioka 9 Canon
#68 Shohta Kobashigawa 9 Ricoh Company
#69 Shuutaroh Yuasa 9 Ricoh Company
#70 Tatsuro Masuyama 9 Sumitomo Chemical
#71 Takashi Urabe 9 Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
#72 Tetsuya Fujioka 9 Ricoh Company
#73 Tsutomu Nishida 9 Canon
#74 Yutaka Ikebuchi 9 Ricoh Company
#75 Yuka Ishiduka 9 Canon
#76 Akihisa Mikawa 8 Ricoh Company
#77 Arie Jeffrey Den Boef 8 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#78 Atsushi Okuda 8 Canon
#79 Cheng-Bai Xu 8 Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials
#80 Cong Liu 8 Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials
#81 Edward G. Zwartz 8 Xerox
#82 Guerino G. Sacripante 8 Xerox
#83 Hajime Gotoh 8 Ricoh Company
#84 Junichi Yokoi 8 Brother Kogyo
#85 Katsuyuki Nonaka 8 Canon
#86 Koji Hasegawa 8 Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.
#87 Koji Nishikawa 8 Canon
#88 Masahiro Ishida 8 Ricoh Company
#89 Marcus Adrianus Van De Kerkhof 8 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#90 Maiko Yoshida 8 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
#91 Naoki Matsuda 8 Ricoh Company
#92 Nicolaas Ten Kate 8 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#93 Richard P. N. Veregin 8 —
#94 Ryuuichi Mimbu 8 Ricoh Company
#95 Satoshi Tsuchiya 8 Ricoh Company
#96 Sander Frederik Wuister 8 Asml Netherlands B.V.
#97 Shinji Sato 8 Nikon
#98 Shohei Tsuda 8 Canon
#99 Susumu Matsusaka 8 Ricoh Company
#100 Takahiro Imada 8 Ricoh Company

Top Companies

Rank ↑ Company ↕ Patents ↕
1 Canon 724
2 Ricoh Company 268
3 Fujifilm Business Innovation 237
#4 Kyocera Document Solutions 231
#5 Asml Netherlands B.V. 179
#6 Brother Kogyo 172
#7 Konica Minolta 146
#8 Carl Zeiss Smt Gmbh 112
#9 Samsung 104
#10 TSMC 98
#11 Nikon 91
#12 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba 74
#13 Seiko Epson 71
#14 Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha 71
#15 Lexmark International 55
#16 Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. 55
#17 Oki Data 48
#18 Xerox 47
#19 Fujifilm 41
#20 HP 39
#21 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha 27
#22 Tokyo Electron Limited 26
#23 Rohm And Haas Electronic Materials 25
#24 S-Printing Solution Co. 24
#25 Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co. 24
#26 BOE 24
#27 Kla-Tencor 21
#28 Sony 21
#29 Casio Computer Co. 20
#30 IBM 19
#31 Hoya 18
#32 Sumitomo Chemical 18
#33 Panasonic 18
#34 Applied Materials 17
#35 Gopro 14
#36 Globalfoundries 13
#37 Jsr 12
#38 Mitsubishi Chemical 12
#39 LG 12
#40 Foxconn 11
#41 Asml Holding N.V. 10
#42 Coretronic 10
#43 Eastman Kodak 10
#44 Lg Innotek Co. 9
#45 Mapper Lithography Ip B.V. 9
#46 Nissan Chemical Industries 9
#47 Sumitomo Rubber Industries 9
#48 United Microelectronics 9
#49 Unknown 9
#50 Apple 8
#51 Dow Global Technologies 8
#52 Seiko Precision 8
#53 Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Shanghai) 8
#54 Disney 8
#55 Intel 8
#56 Axis Ab 7
#57 Nec Display Solutions 7
#58 Sk Hynix 7
#59 Toshiba Memory 7
#60 Amazon 6
#61 Barco N.V. 6
#62 Cj Cgv Co. 6
#63 Delta Electronics 6
#64 Océ Printing Systems Gmbh & Co. Kg 6
#65 Olympus 6
#66 Tencent 6
#67 Zeon 6
#68 Asahi Glass Co. 5
#69 Carl Zeiss Sms 5
#70 Chimei 5
#71 Covestro Deutschland Ag 5
#72 Cymer 5
#73 Dai Nippon Printing Co. 5
#74 Fuji Electric Co. 5
#75 General Plastic Industrial Co. 5
#76 Hitachi Maxell 5
#77 Reald 5
#78 Seereal Technologies S.A. 5
#79 Sz Dji Technology Co. 5
#80 Toray Industries 5
#81 Appotronics China 4
#82 Az Electronic Materials (Luxembourg) S.A.R.L. 4
#83 Bridgestone 4
#84 Celloptic 4
#85 Cheil Industries 4
#86 Chengdu Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co. 4
#87 City University Of Hong Kong 4
#88 CEA 4
#89 Hefei Boe Optoelectronics Technology Co. 4
#90 Hongfujin Precision Industry (Wuhan) Co. 4
#91 Lenovo (Beijing) Limited 4
#92 Mitsubishi Electric 4
#93 Mitsui Chemicals 4
#94 Nichia 4
#95 Nuflare Technology 4
#96 Promerus 4
#97 Qisda 4
#98 Really Right Stuff 4
#99 Stratasys 4
#100 Ui Technologies 4