PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16021587
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["348", "039000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for identifying the orientation of an image in a spherical format. A spherical format is created of an image obtained by a camera, the spherical format comprising a notional sphere that has a centre corresponding to the position from which the image was obtained by the camera. A first surface represented in the image had a first orientation and was at a first distance from the camera when the image was obtained. A plurality of lines are obtained in the spherical format, each line defined by two endpoints in spherical coordinates, wherein each line intersects with at least one other line. For each of a plurality of rotational definitions of the sphere, the spherical coordinates of the endpoints are transformed into a Cartesian coordinate system relative to the rotational definition, thereby creating rotated lines, and a cumulative deviation, from a predetermined angle, is determined of angles between intersecting rotated lines. A preferred rotational definition is identified as the rotational definition that has the smallest cumulative deviation, and it can be used to adjust calculations carried out with respect to spherical coordinates within the spherical format.

Claim (Index 7):
A method according to  claim 5 , wherein the third dimension of said Cartesian coordinate system is perpendicular to said first plane, and wherein:\n if said endpoint is allocated to said first plurality of endpoints, such that its location is on said first plane, its value in said third dimension is a predetermined value; and if said endpoint is allocated to said second plurality of endpoints, such that its location is on said second plane, its value in said third dimension is said predetermined value added to said second distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24176
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15473773', '12043036', '13162237', '15814314', '14102935']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6236440483324254
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5058047748559746
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6118601209847803
- Mean Citation Score: 168.3385
- Max Citation Score: 223.37947000000003
- Similarity Product: 136.43688451193097

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