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 7):
A diagnosis support apparatus for diagnosing a lesion based on an original multi-valued image, the apparatus comprising:\n a dermoscope-equipped image capturing device which captures the original image; a storage device which stores the original image; a display which displays the original image stored in the storage device; and a processor which, under control of a stored program, processes the original image stored in the storage device, wherein the processor performs: performing a smoothing filter processing on a closing processed image and subtracting the original image from a smoothing filter processed image, when acquiring a shape from a low pixel value of the original image; and performing a smoothing filter processing on an opening processed image and subtracting a smoothing filter-processed image from the original image, when acquiring a shape from a high pixel value of the original image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.32558
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14980449', '14980642', '15800555', '15843657', '14995031']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3482458286588563
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5747451936613525
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3708957651591059
- Mean Citation Score: 318.445178
- Max Citation Score: 483.40082
- Similarity Product: 400.8215388629997

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