PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756370
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["348", "079000"]

Abstract:
A confocal slide-digitizing apparatus ( 100 ) includes a slide handling unit ( 20 ) and an imaging unit ( 10 ), wherein the slide handling unit ( 20 ) has a slide supplier unit ( 90 ). The imaging unit ( 10 ) has a light source ( 40 ) to illuminate the sample to be digitized at the imaging position through an objective ( 18 ) arranged in a light path that enables confocal imaging of at least a region of the sample and an image recording unit to receive light with information on at least an illuminated region of the sample through the objective ( 18 ) and generate a digital image of a section of a given thickness of said illuminated region. Moreover, said slide handling unit ( 20 ) and said imaging unit ( 10 ) are joined mechanically together in a tiltable manner relative to one another, thereby correcting the light path of said confocal imaging.

Claim (Index 1):
A confocal slide-digitizing apparatus ( 100 ), comprising a slide handling unit ( 20 ) and a confocal imaging unit ( 10 ),\n said slide handling unit ( 20 ) having a slide supplier unit ( 90 ) configured to position slides ( 92 ) one after the other in an imaging position, said slides ( 92 ) carrying a sample to be digitized; and said imaging unit ( 10 ) having a light source ( 40 ) configured to illuminate the sample to be digitized at the imaging position through an objective ( 18 ) arranged in a light path that enables confocal imaging of at least a region of the sample, and an image recording unit to receive light with information on at least an illuminated region of the sample through the objective ( 18 ) and generate a digital image of a section of a given thickness of said illuminated region, wherein the slide handling unit ( 20 ) and the imaging unit ( 10 ) are joined mechanically together in a tiltable manner relative to one another to define a tilting angle, thereby correcting the light path of said confocal imaging, wherein the tilting angle is chosen so as to ensure that digital images of two adjacent sections of the sample are capable of being continuously stitched together along a thickness of the sample.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.3662
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14771380', '12252748', '11992549', '12853484', '12666035']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6193608213743486
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.488680871018646
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6062928263387783
- Mean Citation Score: 194.53977
- Max Citation Score: 217.05838
- Similarity Product: 155.7827226934886

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

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