PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969582
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "222100"]

Abstract:
An apparatus comprises an image capturing device, a light emitting device for illuminating an object to be captured by the image capturing device, a visual guide to guide a user to aim the apparatus at a target authentication device, and a processor. The visual guide is devised such that when the apparatus is aimed at the target authentication device following guidance of the visual guide, the brightness levels on an image of the target authentication device captured by the image capturing device while under illumination of the light emitting device are within a predetermined range of brightness levels to facilitate verification of authenticity with reference to the captured image of the target authentication device.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of calibrating a reference smartphone for capturing image of an authentication device for subsequent verification of authenticity for subsequent use by same or compatible smart phones, the smartphone comprising an image capturing device, a light emitting device for projecting supplemental illumination along an axis of light projection to a target authentication device during image capture operations when supplemental illumination is required, a display device having a display screen and a processor;\n wherein the authentication device comprises a data bearing image pattern which is characterized by a plurality of pattern defining elements, wherein the pattern defining elements are digitally coded and spatially distributed according to a spatial distribution scheme to embed one data or a set of data comprising a plurality of data as a security feature, and wherein the spatial distribution pattern and the security feature are correlated by a domain transformation coding scheme such as Fourier Transform; wherein the method comprises:\n identifying a target relative position between the image capturing device and a reference authentication device, the target relative position being one that would produce an image of the reference authentication device having a quality of fidelity greater than a predetermined fidelity threshold and a quantity of captured image pixel data greater than a quantity of pixels required to fully and accurately represent the target authentication device when the image of the reference authentication device is captured at the target relative position while under supplemental illumination of the light emitting device; wherein the predetermined fidelity threshold is satisfied when the quantity of captured image pixel data exceeding an overexposure threshold is not greater than a threshold count, when the quantity of captured image pixel data below an underexposure threshold is not greater than a threshold count, and when the quantity of captured image pixel data having brightness levels between the overexposure threshold and the underexposure threshold is of a sufficient amount to facilitate making of decision to verify authenticity of the target authentication device, and \n devising an alignment device on the display screen to correspond to the target relative position for guiding a user to capture an image of a target authentication device during normal use, \n and wherein the target relative position is a selected one of a plurality of available relative positions between the image capturing device and the target authentication device permitting capture of an image of the target authentication device having a sufficient data quantity while the image is being displayed on the display device, and the available relative positions include relative positions between the image capturing device and the target authentication device which are under different supplemental illumination conditions and which would result in unacceptable quality of fidelity due to overexposure and/or underexposure when an image of the target authentication device is captured under the supplemental illumination.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22222
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14404574', '15890254', '14716591', '15688100', '15272532']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6116413024894717
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4769663395126855
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5981738061917931
- Mean Citation Score: 180.330418
- Max Citation Score: 193.4648
- Similarity Product: 146.25576452689168

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

Dataset: test