PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15747559
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "023000"]

Abstract:
A shelf transport system comprising a shelf transport vehicle transporting a shelf having shelf legs, the shelf transport vehicle comprising: a distance sensor measuring a distance to an obstacle; a shelf leg candidate detection module detecting shelf leg candidates, which are candidates for the shelf legs; a shelf arrangement candidate calculation module calculating shelf arrangement candidates, in each of which the shelf is virtually arranged on the shelf leg candidates; an excess/deficiency calculation module calculating, for each of the shelf arrangement candidates, the excessive and the deficient number of shelf leg candidates; a shelf arrangement determination module determining a shelf arrangement from among the shelf arrangement candidates based on the excessive and the deficient number of shelf leg candidates; and a movement destination determination module determining a shelf to which the shelf transport vehicle is to be moved based on the shelf arrangement.

Claim (Index 1):
A shelf transport system comprising a shelf transport vehicle configured to transport a shelf,\n the shelf comprising a plurality of shelf legs, the shelf transport vehicle comprising:\n a distance sensor configured to measure a distance to an obstacle; \n a shelf leg candidate detection module configured to detect shelf leg candidates, which are candidates for the plurality of shelf legs, based on a measurement result of the distance sensor; \n a shelf arrangement candidate calculation module configured to calculate a plurality of shelf arrangement candidates, in each of which the shelf is virtually arranged on the shelf leg candidates detected by the shelf leg candidate detection module; \n an excess/deficiency calculation module configured to calculate, for each of the plurality of shelf arrangement candidates calculated by the shelf arrangement candidate calculation module, an excessive number of shelf leg candidates, which indicates a number of shelf leg candidates other than shelf legs of the arranged shelf, and a deficient number of shelf leg candidates, which indicates a number of positions at which shelf leg candidates corresponding to shelf legs of the arranged shelf fail to be detected; \n a shelf arrangement determination module configured to determine a shelf arrangement from among the plurality of shelf arrangement candidates based on the excessive number of shelf leg candidates and the deficient number of shelf leg candidates, which are calculated by the excess/deficiency calculation module; and \n a movement destination determination module configured to determine a shelf to which the shelf transport vehicle is to be moved based on the shelf arrangement determined by the shelf arrangement determination module.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.87037
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13615948', '11949504', '14602584', '15704652', '13345711']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.359921294493052
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4886331913822009
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.372792484181967
- Mean Citation Score: 147.27435599999995
- Max Citation Score: 151.62828000000005
- Similarity Product: 95.64547548389916

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

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