PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15978282
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["382", "167000"]

Abstract:
A diagnosis support apparatus for diagnosing a lesion based on a captured image composed of a multi-valued image, the apparatus includes a dermoscope-equipped image capturing device which captures the captured image; a storage device which stores the captured image; a display which displays the captured image stored in the storage device; and a processor which, under control of a stored program, processes the captured image stored in the storage device. The processor performs separating the captured image into a brightness component and a color information component; performing a first morphology processing which performs a dilation, an erosion, a smoothing filter processing, and subtraction processing, in this order, with respect to an image representing the brightness component, to generate a first image when acquiring a shape of regions having low pixel values from the image representing the brightness component, and extracting the image obtained as a result of the first morphology processing as a candidate region image; and performing a second morphology processing which performs an erosion, a dilation, a smoothing filter processing, and subtraction processing, in this order, with respect to an image indicating a likelihood of a region obtained from a color space composed of the brightness component and the color information component, to generate a second image when acquiring a shape of regions having high pixel values from the image indicating the likelihood of a region, and extracting the image obtained as a result of the second morphology processing as a likelihood image of a region. The display further displays the captured image having been processed by the processor.

Claim (Index 2):
The diagnosis support apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the processor performs at least one of the first morphology processing and the second morphology processing,\n wherein the first morphology processing comprises a closing processing where the dilation and the erosion are performed on the image in this order, the smoothing filter processing performed on the closing-processed image, and the subtraction processing where the image is subtracted from the smoothing filter-processed image, and wherein the second morphology processing comprises an opening processing where the erosion and the dilation are performed on the image in this order, the smoothing filter processing performed on the opening-processed image, and the subtraction processing where the smoothing filter-processed image is subtracted from the image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.32558
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14980449', '14980642', '15800555', '15843657', '14995031']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3739342047081062
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5811638298348895
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3946571672207846
- Mean Citation Score: 318.445178
- Max Citation Score: 483.40082
- Similarity Product: 424.71210016423225

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

Dataset: test