PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15761955
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["382", "225000"]

Abstract:
A method and a device for detecting at least one target in an image, wherein the image comprises a set of pixels with a magnitude assigned to each pixel is provided. The method comprises an iterative process until the K+1th target does not show a probability increase above a predetermined threshold value. The method is performed by creating a candidate free image, calculating, for the candidate free image, the probability of there being a target at each pixel, by using Bayes theorem, determining a location of the candidate target K+1 in the image, determining the probability that there is a target at the determined location, by determining the calculated probability of there being a target at the determined location. By performing the above, the most probable locations for targets in the image are located together with the probability that the location holds a true target.

Claim (Index 17):
A device arranged to detect at least one target in an image (I), wherein the image (I) comprises a set of pixels with an magnitude assigned to each pixel, wherein the device comprises processing circuitry ( 11 ) configured to, for a number of candidate targets K\u22650, and starting with K=0, performing the following until the K+1th target does not show a probability (P) increase above a predetermined threshold value:\n creating (S1) a candidate free image by removing a footprint of the candidate target K from the candidate free image of the previous candidate target K\u22121; wherein if K=0, the candidate free image is equal to the image (I); calculating (S2), for the candidate free image, the probability of there being a target at each pixel, by using Bayes theorem; wherein Bayes theorem is calculated using the number of targets K; determining (S3) a location of the candidate target K+1 in the image (I) by:\n identifying (S31) the location in the candidate free image having a maximum probability of there being a target at each pixel, the identified location being the location of the candidate target K+1; \n determining (S4), for each candidate target from 1 to K, the probability (P) that there is a target at the determined location associated with that candidate target by determining (S41) the calculated probability of there being a target at the determined location; repeating the above with K substituted with K+1.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.19444
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15535997', '10847023', '12753643', '12406922', '14600402']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3723549741596665
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4938555439912685
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3845050311428267
- Mean Citation Score: 204.601438
- Max Citation Score: 217.82793
- Similarity Product: 151.60598876226962

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