PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15890826
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["705", "023000"]

Abstract:
According to an embodiment, a checkout apparatus includes a sensor; a reading device; an operation key; and a controller. The controller is configured to identify the product on the basis of read information from the reading device, and execute sales registration processing on the identified product. The controller is further configured to determine, in a case where the operation key receives the settlement operation, whether or not the product is in the predetermined placing area on the basis of detection information from the sensor. Further, the controller is further configured to execute, in a case of determining that no product is in the predetermined placing area, the settlement processing on the product on which the sales registration processing is executed.

Claim (Index 10):
A checkout method for a checkout apparatus including a sensor that detects a situation in a predetermined placing area, a product being placed in the predetermined placing area, a reading device that reads information on the product moved from the predetermined placing area to a predetermined reading range, and an operation key that receives a settlement operation for instructing settlement processing of the product, the checkout method comprising:\n identifying the product on the basis of read information from the reading device; executing sales registration processing on the identified product; determining, in a case where the operation key receives the settlement operation, whether or not the product is in the predetermined placing area on the basis of detection information from the sensor; and executing, in a case of determining that no product is in the predetermined placing area, the settlement processing on the product on which the sales registration processing is executed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43636
- Patent Class: 705.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13540556', '12343730', '13006666', '11811790', '11652995']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.1152462805725468
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4853308426052365
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.1522547367758158
- Mean Citation Score: 212.678522
- Max Citation Score: 218.99118
- Similarity Product: 164.06700127725722

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