PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16267362
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["172", "002000"]

Abstract:
A method for weeding crops includes, at an autonomous machine: recording an image at the front of the autonomous machine; detecting a target plant and calculating an opening location for the target plant longitudinally offset and laterally aligned with the location of the first target plant; driving a weeding module to laterally align with the opening location; tracking the opening location relative to a longitudinal reference position of the weeding module; when the weeding module longitudinally aligns with the first opening location, actuating the blades of the first weeding module to an open position; recording an image proximal to the weeding module; and in response to detecting the blades of the weeding module in the open position: calculating an offset between the opening location and a reference position of the weeding module, based on the image; and updating successive opening locations calculated by the autonomous machine based on the offset.

Claim (Index 4):
The method of  claim 3 , further comprising:\n calibrating a pixel location of the longitudinal reference position of the first weeding module in the field of view of the first rear camera, the pixel location of the longitudinal reference position of the first weeding module coinciding with the intersection point of the blades of the first weeding module; and calibrating a pixel location of the lateral reference position of the first weeding module in a field of view of the first rear camera, the pixel location of the lateral reference position of the first weeding module coinciding with an intersection point of the blades of the first weeding module.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.81034
- Patent Class: 172.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16260042', '15852749', '15693301', '15693336', '15693316']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6399602566208421
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4745593168885804
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.623420162647616
- Mean Citation Score: 110.808884
- Max Citation Score: 120.40467
- Similarity Product: 79.09487415148794

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test