IPC 7 English version
Class G06

SECTION G – PHYSICS

G 06COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING (score computers for games A63B 71/06, A63D 15/20, A63F 1/18; combinations of writing implements with computing devices B43K 29/08)

Notes

(1)This class covers:

 –simulators which are concerned with the mathematics of computing the existing or anticipated conditions within the real device or system;

 –simulators which demonstrate, by means involving computing, the function of apparatus or of a system, if no provision exists elsewhere;

 –image data processing or generation.

(2)This class does not cover:

 –control functions derived from simulators, in general, which are covered by class G05, although such functions may be covered by the subclass of this class for the device controlled;

 –measurement or analysis of an individual variable to serve as an input to a simulator, which is covered by class G01;

 –simulators regarded as teaching or training devices which is the case if they give perceptible sensations having a likeness to the sensations a student would experience in reality in response to actions taken by him. Such simulators are covered by class G09;

 –components of simulators, if identical with real devices or machines, which are covered by the relevant subclass for these devices or machines (and not by class G09).

(3)In this class, the following terms or expressions are used with the meanings indicated:

 –"data" is used as the synonym of "information". Therefore, the term "information" is not used in subclass G06C or G06F;

 –"calculating" or "computing" includes, inter alia, operations on numerical values and on data expressed in numerical form. Of these terms "computing" is used throughout the class;

 –"computation" is derived from this interpretation of "computing". In the French language the term "calcul" will serve for either term;

 –"simulator" is a device which may use the same time scale as the real device or operate on an expanded or compressed time scale. In interpreting this term models of real devices to reduced or expanded scales are not regarded as simulators;

 –"record carrier" means a body, such as a cylinder, disc, card, tape, or wire, capable of permanently holding information, which can be read-off by a sensing element movable relative to the recorded information.

(4)Attention is drawn to the Notes following the title of section G, especially as regards the definition of the term "variable".

G 06 CDIGITAL COMPUTERS IN WHICH ALL THE COMPUTATION IS EFFECTED MECHANICALLY (score computers for card games A63F 1/18; construction of keys, printing mechanisms, or other parts of general application to the typewriting or printing art B41; keys or printing mechanisms for special applications, see the relevant subclass, e.g. G05G, G06K; cash registers G07G 1/00) [4]

G 06 DDIGITAL FLUID-PRESSURE COMPUTING DEVICES

G 06 EOPTICAL COMPUTING DEVICES (optical logic elements per se G02F 3/00; computer systems based on specific computational models G06N; digital storage using optical elements G11C 13/04) [5]

G 06 FELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computers in which a part of the computation is effected hydraulically or pneumatically G06D, optically G06E; self-contained input or output peripheral equipment G06K; computer systems based on specific computational models G06N; impedance networks using digital techniques H03H)

G 06 GANALOGUE COMPUTERS (analogue optical computing devices G06E 3/00; computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

G 06 JHYBRID COMPUTING ARRANGEMENTS (optical hybrid computing devices G06E 3/00; computer systems based on specific computational models G06N; neural networks for image data processing G06T; analogue/digital conversion, in general H03M 1/00)

G 06 KRECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS (postal sorting B07C; secondary surveillance radar G01S; detecting presence of transponders or tags G01S, G01V)

G 06 MCOUNTING MECHANISMS; COUNTING OF OBJECTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (counting by measuring volume or weight of articles to be counted G01F, G01G; adaptation of counters to electricity meters in electromechanical arrangements for measuring time integral of electric power or current G01R 11/16; computers G06C to G06J; counting electric pulses H03K; counting characters, words or messages in switching networks for transmission of digital information H04L 12/08; metering arrangements in telephonic systems H04M 15/00)

G 06 NCOMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS [7]

G 06 TIMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL (specially adapted for particular applications, see the relevant subclasses, e.g. G06K, G09G, H04N) [6]