PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005051
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["324", "240000"]

Abstract:
Methods and devices are provided for providing a graphic overlay for measuring dimensions of features using a video inspection device. One or more measurement cursors are placed on pixels of an image of the object. One or more planes are determined parallel or normal to a reference surface or line and passing through surface points associated with the measurement cursors. A semi-transparent graphic overlay is placed on pixels with associated surface points having three-dimensional surface coordinates less than a predetermined distance from the plane(s) to help the user place the measurement cursors.

Claim (Index 13):
A method for measuring a feature, the method comprising the steps of:\n displaying on a monitor an image of a viewed object; determining three-dimensional coordinates of a plurality of points on a surface of the viewed object using a central processor unit; selecting one or more reference surface points from the plurality of points on the surface of the viewed object using a pointing device; determining a reference surface using the central processor unit, wherein the reference surface is determined based on the one or more of the reference surface points; placing a measurement cursor on the image using the pointing device; determining a measurement point corresponding to the location of the measurement cursor using the central processor unit; determining a depth plane using the central processor unit, wherein the depth plane is parallel to the reference surface and passes through the measurement point; determining a distance between the plurality of points on a surface of the viewed object and the depth plane using the central processor unit; comparing the distance between the plurality of points on a surface of the viewed object and the depth plane to a predetermined distance threshold using the central processor unit; and displaying a depth plane graphical overlay on pixels in the image associated with the plurality of points on a surface of the viewed object having a distance to the depth plane that is below the predetermined distance threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59677
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15648010', '15018628', '15958215', '15018556', '15810584']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.585845869148252
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5839344825908183
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5856547304925086
- Mean Citation Score: 378.254582
- Max Citation Score: 484.0018
- Similarity Product: 463.76584055297377

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