PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16013634
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["348", "068000"]

Abstract:
Medical imaging camera head devices and methods are provided using light captured by an endoscope system or other medical scope or borescope. Afocal light from the scope is manipulated and split. The resulting first and second beams are passed through focusing optics to a single sensor. To take better advantage of the available number image sensor pixels, the beam may pass through lens elements (or prisms) to generate an anamorphic aspect ratio prior to being split, increasing the resolution of the image in one dimension. The afocal anamorphic beam is then split, and both images are focused on the image sensor. The anamorphism is compensated for in image processing, permitting higher resolution in one dimension along the image sensor. The manipulation of the beams prior to being split (and in some cases after or while being split) can take several forms, each offering distinct advantages over existing systems.

Claim (Index 17):
A method of producing enhanced images from a medical scope, comprising the steps of:\n collecting image light from an illuminated scene; directing image light from the medical scope along a single optical channel with the image light in a substantially afocal state; splitting the image light from the single optical channel into a first portion of light and a second portion of light; optically manipulating the image light directed along a single optical channel to have an anamorphic aspect ratio, the first portion of light, or the second portion of light; directing the first portion of light along a first optical path and the second portion of light along a second optical path; focusing the first portion of light on a first area of an image sensor and forming thereby a first detected image; focusing the second portion of light on a second portion of the image sensor, separate from the first area of the image sensor, and forming thereby a second detected image; and processing image data from the first and second portions of the image sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67347
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11187584', '11780793', '15811543', '12414547', '13012529']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5632194774212885
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4888860601213823
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5557861356912979
- Mean Citation Score: 174.84518199999997
- Max Citation Score: 182.49597
- Similarity Product: 127.42261077294408

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

Dataset: test