Design Patents for Image Interfaces

Designing patent image interface research has been done for manyyears and in many different ways. The research samples in this study wereselected from 2006 to 2014 from the United States of America (USA) patentsofficial image database. The study aims to analyze image interface patentswithin the USA to give an expected development outline for other countrieswhat interested in such design patents. A total of 373 samples were selectedfor this study. The research results were concluded as follows: (1) Theapplication categories of image interface focus more on tablet computersand no-vectors. It is also worth noting that quantity of image interface patentsof no-vectors has been the fastest diversifying development trend ofimage interface and is greater than that of any other tablet computers applications.(2) In regard to the analysis of patentees, Microsoft was the first enterpriseto present its patent layout for image interface, and to certain extent,it had created barriers blocking the entry of other enterprises. (3) As forquantity of design patents, seven drawings are most commonly found in theUSA’s image patent gazette. Such a result also conforms with EuropeanUnion’s regulations.