PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16267362
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["172", "002000"]

Abstract:
A method for weeding crops includes, at an autonomous machine: recording an image at the front of the autonomous machine; detecting a target plant and calculating an opening location for the target plant longitudinally offset and laterally aligned with the location of the first target plant; driving a weeding module to laterally align with the opening location; tracking the opening location relative to a longitudinal reference position of the weeding module; when the weeding module longitudinally aligns with the first opening location, actuating the blades of the first weeding module to an open position; recording an image proximal to the weeding module; and in response to detecting the blades of the weeding module in the open position: calculating an offset between the opening location and a reference position of the weeding module, based on the image; and updating successive opening locations calculated by the autonomous machine based on the offset.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 7 , further comprising:\n averaging the first longitudinal offset and the second longitudinal offset to calculate a longitudinal correction; averaging the first lateral offset and the second lateral offset to calculate a lateral correction; recording a fifth image of the ground area below the light module; detecting a location of a third target plant based on the fifth image; calculating a third opening location for the third target plant longitudinally offset from the location of the third target plant and laterally aligned with the location of the third target plant; calculating a corrected third opening location by offsetting the third opening location by the longitudinal correction and the lateral correction; driving the first weeding module to laterally align the lateral reference position of the first weeding module with the corrected third opening location; tracking the corrected third opening location relative to the longitudinal reference position of the first weeding module; in response to the longitudinal reference position of the first weeding module longitudinally aligning with the corrected third opening location, actuating the blades of the first weeding module to the open position; recording a sixth image of the ground area below the tool housing; in response to detecting the blades of the first weeding module in the open position in the sixth image;\n calculating a third longitudinal offset between the third opening location and the longitudinal reference position of the first weeding module, based on the sixth image; and \n calculating a third lateral offset between the third opening location and the lateral reference position of the first weeding module, based on the sixth image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.81034
- Patent Class: 172.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16260042', '15852749', '15693301', '15693336', '15693316']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6388159510291912
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4790733344821731
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6228416893744894
- Mean Citation Score: 110.808884
- Max Citation Score: 120.40467
- Similarity Product: 76.30727316067099

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

Dataset: test