PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906714
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["235", "462410"]

Abstract:
A reading device includes: an imaging unit that acquires an image by imaging an object; and a reading unit that emits a scanning light having a prescribed scanning angle range in a prescribed one-dimensional direction and that detects the scanning light reflected by the object so as to acquire a target information displayed on the object. The imaging unit and the reading unit are disposed such that a center line of the prescribed scanning angle range of the scanning light and an optical axis of the imaging unit intersect with each other at a point that is away from the reading device by at a prescribed distance.

Claim (Index 9):
A reading device, comprising:\n a camera that acquires an image by imaging an object; and a scanner that emits a light beam towards the object in a scanning manner to emit a scanning light having a prescribed scanning angle range in a one-dimensional prescribed direction, and that detects the scanning light reflected by the object so as to acquire a target information displayed on a surface of the object, an emission direction of the scanning light being changeable; and a processor that performs:\n determining whether or not the surface of the object and an optical axis of the camera are perpendicular to each other; \n when the surface of the object and the optical axis of the camera are determined to be perpendicular to each other, acquiring distance information indicating a distance from the camera to the object; and \n causing the scanner to change the emission direction of the scanning light in accordance with the acquired distance information such that a center line of the prescribed scanning angle range of the scanning light and the optical axis of the camera intersect with each other on the surface of the object.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94737
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13412556', '15410799', '14375421', '15410795', '15410794']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5667863098286526
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4453852954845133
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5546462083942387
- Mean Citation Score: 161.66796800000003
- Max Citation Score: 167.50638
- Similarity Product: 139.26708688630342

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

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