PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15971227
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["356", "638000"]

Abstract:
An inspection system comprises an imaging device mounted so as to image a component surface. At least one controllable light mounted at low oblique angles around the component and configured to illuminate the component surface and cast at least one shadow on the component surface. A processor is coupled to the imaging device and the at least one controllable light. The processor is used for determining a feature based on a dissimilarity between image data and a reference model, and to determine damage to the component.

Claim (Index 12):
A method for inspection of a component, comprising:\n imaging a component surface with an imaging device; mounting at least one controllable light at an oblique angle around said component; illuminating said component surface; casting at least one shadow on said component surface; coupling a processor to said imaging device and said at least one controllable light; said processor comprising a tangible, non-transitory memory configured to communicate with said processor, the tangible, non-transitory memory having instructions stored therein that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: controlling said at least one controllable light to cast said at least one shadow; receiving image data for said component from said imaging device; determining a feature dissimilarity between the image data and a reference model; classifying the feature dissimilarity; and determining a probability that the feature dissimilarity indicates damage to the component detecting a defect based on said at least one shadow; and archiving said image data and said feature dissimilarity for at least one of future damage progression detection, damage trending and condition-based maintenance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78431
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15201176', '14283466', '10429108', '15115196', '15553630']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6584504015404035
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4780979762901399
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.640415159015377
- Mean Citation Score: 139.15399200000002
- Max Citation Score: 184.41286
- Similarity Product: 134.2024914179969

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