PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870483
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["382", "260000"]

Abstract:
A depth based scanning system can be configured to determine whether pixel depth values of a depth map are within a depth range; determine a component of the depth map comprised of connected pixels each with a depth value within the depth range; replace the depth values of any pixels of the depth map that are not connected pixels; determine whether each pixel of the connected pixels of the component has at least a threshold number of neighboring pixels that have a depth value within the depth range; and for each pixel of the connected pixels of the component, if the pixel is determined to have at least the threshold number of neighboring pixels, replace its depth value with a filtered depth value that is based on the depth values of the neighboring pixels that have a depth value within the depth range.

Claim (Index 31):
A method of processing a depth map, the method comprising:\n obtaining the depth map, wherein the depth map comprises a plurality of depth map pixels each having a pixel depth value, wherein each depth map pixel corresponds to one pixel of a plurality of pixels in an image; determining a revised map from the depth map wherein the revised map comprises a plurality of revised map pixels, wherein each of the plurality of revised map pixels corresponds to one of the depth map pixels that has a pixel depth value within a predetermined depth range; determining a mask from the depth map wherein the mask comprises a plurality of mask pixels, wherein each of the plurality of mask pixels corresponds to one of the depth map pixels and to one of the revised map pixels; for each one of the plurality of mask pixels, assigning a first predetermined value where the corresponding depth map pixel has a pixel depth value that is within the predetermined depth range, otherwise assigning a second predetermined value; determining at least one component of the mask wherein the at least one component comprises a plurality of connected pixels each having the first predetermined value; determining a largest component of the at least one component of the mask; determining a bounding box for the largest component; for a target pixel of the mask pixels inside the bounding box, where the target pixel has a threshold number of neighboring pixels assigned the first predetermined value, determining a filtered depth value for the corresponding pixel in the revised map.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.06122
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14827897', '14835475', '13301412', '14389619', '15521883']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2825394770298664
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4840371175254374
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3026892410794236
- Mean Citation Score: 201.29488
- Max Citation Score: 214.04073
- Similarity Product: 173.5540252999395

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test