PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16207378
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["382", "133000"]

Abstract:
An image processing device ( 2 A) comprises: an input means for inputting a brightfield image representing cell morphology in a tissue section, and a fluorescence image representing, by fluorescent bright spots, the expression of a specific protein in the same range of the tissue section; a first generation means for generating a cell image obtained by extracting a specific site of a cell from the brightfield image; a second generation means for generating an image obtained by extracting bright spot regions from the fluorescence image, creating a brightness profile for each bright spot region, and generating a fluorescent particle image obtained by extracting the fluorescent particles in the bright spot regions on the basis of the fluorescence profile for one fluorescent particle, which serves as a fluorescence bright spot source; and a calculation means for superimposing the cell image and the fluorescent particle image on one another.

Claim (Index 5):
An image processing method comprising;\n an input step of inputting to a processor a bright field image showing a shape of a cell in a tissue section and a fluorescence image showing presence of a target biological substance as a fluorescent bright point in the same range of the tissue section as the bright field image; a first generation step of generating, by the processor, a cell image showing an extracted specific site of the cell from the bright field image; a second generation step of generating an image showing an extracted bright point region from the fluorescence image, to generate a luminance profile for the bright point region, to identify extracted fluorescent particles in the extracted bright point region using a reference luminance profile of a single fluorescence particle, and to generate a fluorescent particle image showing the identified fluorescent particles in the bright point region; and an addition step of adding, by the processor, the cell image and the fluorescent particle image thereby displaying the identified fluorescent particles in each cell of the cell image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42424
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15103171', '16315249', '14902410', '15325355', '15533441']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3372436989592103
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6131067903409368
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.364830008097383
- Mean Citation Score: 383.73234
- Max Citation Score: 534.749
- Similarity Product: 513.2722687926888

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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