PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16053760
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
A depth sensing apparatus and an operation method thereof are provided. The depth sensing apparatus includes a projector, multiple cameras, and an image processing circuit. The projector includes a diffraction optical element (DoE) and a light source module. Rays of the light source module selectively pass through at least one of multiple projection style regions of the DoE so as to generate a projection pattern, and the projection pattern is projected to a field. The cameras respectively shoot the projection pattern projected to the field to obtain multiple images. The image processing circuit processes the images to obtain multiple depth maps. The image processing circuit at least merges the depth maps to generate a final depth map of the field.

Claim (Index 9):
An operation method of a depth sensing apparatus, comprising:\n projecting a projection pattern to a field by a projector comprising a diffraction optical element and a light source module, wherein the diffraction optical element comprises a plurality of projection style regions disposed on a same plane, and one of rays of the light source module selectively pass through one of the projection style regions to generate the projection pattern; shooting the projection pattern projected to the field by a first camera to obtain a first image; shooting the projection pattern projected to the field by a second camera to obtain a second image; processing the first image by an image processing circuit to obtain a first depth map; processing the second image by the image processing circuit to obtain a second depth map; and at least merging the first depth map and the second depth map by the image processing circuit to generate a final depth map of the field.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14998253', '15811594', '13442886', '15274994', '15252129']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5251933554351557
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4632965373669183
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5190036736283319
- Mean Citation Score: 199.400834
- Max Citation Score: 204.28252
- Similarity Product: 179.88594636420726

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

Dataset: test