PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16192148
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["356", "402000"]

Abstract:
A color measuring apparatus includes a measurement assembly which includes at least one illumination assembly for applying substantially parallel illumination light to a measurement spot of a measurement object and a pick-up assembly for capturing the measurement light radiated back from the measurement spot in an observation direction and for converting the same into corresponding electrical signals. The illumination assembly includes at least two illumination subassemblies which illuminate the measurement spot from different illumination sub-directions near a first preset nominal illumination direction, each with preferably parallel illumination light. By the illumination from different illumination sub-directions slightly deviating from the nominal illumination direction, angular errors of the illumination assembly can be compensated for in a simple manner.

Claim (Index 37):
A method of making a measurement with illumination angle error compensation in a color measurement device, the measurement device including at least one illumination assembly, the illumination assembly including at least two illumination subassemblies each including a light source, the illumination assembly being oriented with an actual illumination direction with respect to a measurement spot of a measurement object and a nominal illumination direction, each illumination subassembly illuminating the measurement spot from illumination sub-directions that differ from the actual illumination direction by angles of no more than 4\u00b0 and having a measurement summation weighting factor to correct for the difference between the actual illumination angle and the nominal illumination angle, a pick-up assembly for capturing the measurement light radiated back from the measurement spot along an observation direction and for converting the same into corresponding electrical signals, said method comprising:\n making a first measurement by activating the pick-up assembly for a first time window and individually controlling an activation of a first illumination subassembly within the first time window; \n making a second measurement by activating the pick-up assembly for a second time window and individually controlling an activation of a second illumination subassembly within the second time window; \n weighting each measurement according to each sub assembly's weighting factor; and \n summing the weighted measurements to obtain a measurement corrected to the nominal illumination angle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89062
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14798920', '15094779', '14013170', '14067169', '16148187']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6403215498206014
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5583145234717312
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6321208471857144
- Mean Citation Score: 222.894534
- Max Citation Score: 414.4376
- Similarity Product: 386.1774547588348

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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