PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058719
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["600", "407000"]

Abstract:
A photoacoustic apparatus includes a light source generating multiple lights with different wavelengths, a converting element receiving photoacoustic waves generated in a subject by the subject being irradiated by the multiple lights, a first distribution obtaining unit obtaining a property distribution based on optical absorption within the subject, for each of the mutually different wavelengths, using time-sequence reception signals each output from the converting element for each of the mutually different wavelengths, a second distribution obtaining unit obtaining, using multiple property distributions based on optical absorption for each wavelength, a concentration-related distribution of a substance of an object region of the subject, and a statistical information obtaining unit obtaining statistical information indicating variance in distribution in at least part of the concentration-related distribution.

Claim (Index 1):
A photoacoustic apparatus comprising:\n a light source configured to generate a plurality of lights with mutually different wavelengths; a converting element configured to receive photoacoustic waves generated in a subject by the subject being irradiated by the plurality of lights; a first distribution obtaining unit configured to obtain a property distribution based on optical absorption within the subject, for each of the mutually different wavelengths, using time-sequence reception signals output from the converting element for each of the mutually different wavelengths; a second distribution obtaining unit configured to, using a plurality of property distributions based on optical absorption for each of the mutually different wavelengths, obtain a concentration-related distribution of a substance of an object region of the subject; and a statistical information obtaining unit configured to obtain statistical information indicating variance in distribution in at least a part of the concentration-related distribution; wherein the second distribution obtaining unit obtains, based on the statistical information, a concentration-related distribution where positional deviation between the object region and the converting element at each of the mutually different wavelengths is suppressed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12903
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14737275', '14007447', '15236572', '13991506', '13900891']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4625571940378555
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.486057941670703
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4649072688011402
- Mean Citation Score: 205.11301
- Max Citation Score: 275.27454
- Similarity Product: 239.81083466297864

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

Dataset: test