PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16269262
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["705", "028000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are provided for use in monitoring product placement within a shopping facility. Some embodiments provide an apparatus configured to determine product placement conditions within a shopping facility, comprising: a transceiver configured to wirelessly receive communications; a product monitoring control circuit coupled with the transceiver; a memory coupled with the control circuit and storing computer instructions that when executed by the control circuit cause the control circuit to: obtain a composite three-dimensional (3D) scan mapping corresponding to at least a select area of the shopping facility and based on a series of 3D scan data; evaluate the 3D scan mapping to identify multiple product depth distances; and identify, from the evaluation of the 3D scan mapping, when one or more of the multiple product depth distances is greater than a predefined depth distance threshold from the reference offset distance of the product support structure.

Claim (Index 10):
A method of determining product placement conditions within a shopping facility, comprising:\n by a control circuit of a shopping facility product monitoring system:\n obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) scan mapping corresponding to at least a select area of the shopping facility and based on a series of 3D scan data; \n obtaining, based on the 3D scan mapping, multiple product depth distances defined between a reference proximate an edge of a product support structure and each of multiple items of a first product positioned on the product support structure; and \n identifying when one or more of the multiple product depth distances is greater than a predefined depth distance threshold from the edge of the product support structure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87059
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15061265', '15061507', '15060953', '15423812', '15061406']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1172509165663678
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5344599609007049
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1589718209998015
- Mean Citation Score: 277.045904
- Max Citation Score: 381.78928
- Similarity Product: 354.812074110384

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

Dataset: test