PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860760
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["351", "206000"]

Abstract:
An image processing apparatus that processes a tomographic image generated by using tomographic signals acquired by subjecting a subject to optical coherence tomographic imaging, includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire the tomographic signals, and a generation unit configured to generate a tomographic image based on a representative value in each pixel position of the tomographic image, generated by using the tomographic signals, the generation unit includes a region determination unit configured to determine a target region where contrast is reduced in the tomographic image, by using tomographic signals, and an estimation unit configured to estimate an estimation value, by performing statistical processing on tomographic signals corresponding to a pixel position of the tomographic image out of the tomographic signals, and the generation unit generates the tomographic image with the estimation value as the representative value in the target region.

Claim (Index 5):
The image processing apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the generation unit further includes a calculation unit configured to calculate a calculation value in a pixel position by using a plurality of tomographic signals corresponding to the pixel position of the tomographic image, out of the plurality of sets of tomographic signals, wherein the calculation value is any one of an arithmetic mean value, a median value, a mode value and a maximum value, and wherein the generation unit generates the tomographic image with the calculation value as the representative value in a region other than the target region in the tomographic image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61404
- Patent Class: 351.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15797311', '14011363', '14161733', '15408867', '14963867']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5840815182957196
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.493760504021312
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5750494168682789
- Mean Citation Score: 266.75774
- Max Citation Score: 271.14697
- Similarity Product: 224.8931765081352

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