PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15750296
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["345", "424000"]

Abstract:
For visualization in medical imaging, a hybrid volume ( 22 ) and surface ( 24 ) renderer ( 16 ) uses unified ray tracing. Rather than separately rasterizing the surface ( 24 ) and ray tracing the volume ( 22 ), a same ray or set of rays is used for both the volume ( 22 ) and the surface ( 24 ). Various effects may be modeled by determining ( 34 ) the intersection of the ray with the surface ( 24 ) or surfaces ( 24 ) and integrating ( 36 ) the volume ( 22 ) data in parallel. For medical imaging ( 38 ), more complex effects, interactive rendering, and/or real-time rendering may be provided by altering the integration for ray tracing based on the detected intersections.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 15  wherein accumulating comprises integrating with interpolation and transfer functions, the variation being in magnitude of some of the samples, color of some of the samples, opacity of some of the samples, lighting, or combinations thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15385
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15593411', '15063632', '15811796', '15871418', '15426589']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6855390831729595
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5269794908681141
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.669683123942475
- Mean Citation Score: 264.80147
- Max Citation Score: 344.55515
- Similarity Product: 249.10363542037905

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

Dataset: test