PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867213
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["356", "338000"]

Abstract:
A system ( 1 ) for detecting microscopic objects located in a flowing fluid. It comprises a lighting system ( 205, 305 ) comprising at least one LED diode ( 605 ) for supplying light to the flowing fluid; an image capture system ( 201, 601 ) configured to capture a sequence of images of the fluid. The image capture system comprises a camera comprising a plurality of pixels. The sequence of images is processed and the presence and shape of microscopic objects is determined. The lighting system ( 205, 305 ) is configured to supply high power light pulses having amplitude Io′ and very short time duration T ON , the time instant at which said pulses are triggered being synchronized with the time instants at which pixels in the image capture system ( 601 ) start to capture an image frame. The amplitude Io′ and time duration T ON  of the light pulses are controlled by calculating, from the light intensity (I frame ) of each captured image frame, a pulse amplitude setpoint (PAS) and a pulse duration setpoint (PDS) for adjusting respective potentiometers ( 651, 652 ) configured to respectively fix the amplitude Io′ and pulse duration T ON  by executing an algorithm that prioritizes amplitude rises over pulse duration rises. The lighting system ( 305 ) comprises an energy loading system ( 670 ) configured to make the amplitude requirement and response time of the lighting system ( 305 ) independent from the power supply unit. Method for detecting microscopic objects suspended in a flowing fluid.

Claim (Index 3):
The system of  claim 1 , wherein said lighting system comprises a pulse generator for generating from said pulse duration setpoint and from a strobe signal provided by said image capture system, a pulsed signal having period T frame  and having pulses of duration T ON , T ON  \u00abT EXP \u2264T frame , said duration T ON  being obtained from said pulse duration setpoint and said strobe signal being used for synchronizing the pulses of duration T ON  with the time instant at which the pixels in the image capture system start to capture an image frame.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52252
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15316998', '12893819', '15561965', '13060044', '12172524']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6629297834846701
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.476902036523938
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6443270087885969
- Mean Citation Score: 145.32367400000004
- Max Citation Score: 152.24892
- Similarity Product: 111.58183952942848

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

Dataset: test