PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877552
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["382", "275000"]

Abstract:
A reduced noise image can be formed from a set of images. One of the images of the set can be selected to be a reference image and other images of the set are transformed such that they are better aligned with the reference image. A measure of the alignment of each image with the reference image is determined. At least some of the transformed images can then be combined using weights which depend on the alignment of the transformed image with the reference image to thereby form the reduced noise image. By weighting the images according to their alignment with the reference image the effects of misalignment between the images in the combined image are reduced. Furthermore, motion correction may be applied to the reduced noise image.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of forming a reduced noise image using a set of images, the method comprising:\n obtaining a plurality of transformed images by applying respective transformations to at least some of the images of the set to bring them closer to alignment with a reference image from the set of images; determining, for each of the transformed images, a respective measure of alignment of that transformed image with the reference image, wherein the measure of alignment for a transformed image is a misalignment parameter \u03c4 i , determined as the sum, over all of the pixel positions (x,y) of the transformed image, of the absolute differences between the transformed image W i (x, y) and the reference image I r (x, y); determining weights for one or more of the transformed images using the determined measures of alignment; and combining a plurality of images including said one or more of the transformed images using the determined weights to form a reduced noise image which has less noise than the reference image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28814
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15068976', '12634699', '12319001', '15248895', '14433457']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3048312712953703
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5369915687101161
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3280473010368449
- Mean Citation Score: 214.942422
- Max Citation Score: 382.95685
- Similarity Product: 277.05449483548404

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

Dataset: test