PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16179810
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["235", "462240"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to data readers including an improved imaging system that optimizes active and passive autofocus techniques for improving data reading functions. In an example, the data reader initially uses active autofocus techniques to focus a lens system based on a measurement reading by a rangefinder and acquire an image of an item in the field-of-view of the data reader. The data reader includes a decoding engine operable to decode an optical code of the item using the acquired image. If the decoding engine is unable to decode the optical code using the active autofocus technique, the data reader alternates to a passive autofocus technique to alter the focus settings of the lens system and reattempt the decoding process.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 17 , further comprising adjusting, via the driver mechanism, the lens system to the focus position corresponding with at least one of the one or more focal planes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01587
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15354247', '11496913', '15879645', '14264173', '15269020']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5721925303409907
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.48269579877594
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5632428571844856
- Mean Citation Score: 168.77617999999995
- Max Citation Score: 268.38245
- Similarity Product: 220.34094628042288

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