PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906674
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["318", "480000"]

Abstract:
Intelligent building control systems utilize sky information from a camera or cameras to facilitate control of building systems such as lighting, motorized window coverings, electrochromic glazings, HVAC systems, and so forth. In this manner, energy efficiency and occupant comfort and convenience are improved.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the calculating a brightness level associated with the location of interest comprises:\n dividing, by the automated control system, the first camera image of the sky into a first image zone and a second image zone, wherein the first image zone contains the location of the solar disk based on the geographic location of the camera, the orientation of the camera, and the date and time the first camera image was captured by the camera, and wherein the second image zone contains the portion of the first camera image not contained in the first image zone; processing, by the automated control system, the first image zone to determine an apparent diameter of the solar disk, wherein the processing utilizes one or more of gradient information, color information, or intensity information associated with the first image zone; and classifying, based on the apparent diameter of the solar disk, the sky condition associated with the first camera image of the sky.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.28205
- Patent Class: 318.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14692868', '14461619', '15057354', '13556388', '13343912']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.72119681629766
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5229432085277836
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7013714555206724
- Mean Citation Score: 300.8844840000001
- Max Citation Score: 320.24585
- Similarity Product: 192.5894844318271

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