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 14):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n further comprising recording a sequence of images of the ground area below the light module, the sequence of images comprising the first image; wherein detecting the location of the first target plant based on the first image further comprises, for each image in the sequence of images detecting an estimated location of the first target plant based on the image; further comprising, in response to detecting the estimated location of the first target plant at a longitudinal center of the first image, selecting the first image from the sequence of images; and wherein calculating the first opening location for the first target plant longitudinally offset from the location of the first target plant and laterally aligned with the location of the first target plant further comprises, in response to selecting the first image from the sequences of images, calculating the first opening location for the first target plant longitudinally offset from the estimated location of the first target plant and laterally aligned with the estimated location of the first target plant.

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): 0.6423498125279031
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4651269616929465
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6246275274444075
- Mean Citation Score: 110.808884
- Max Citation Score: 120.40467
- Similarity Product: 84.9285728830433

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