PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16101268
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["600", "465000"]

Abstract:
A subject information acquisition apparatus of the present invention includes a transmission/reception unit including a plurality conversion elements which transmit an elastic wave to the subject and receive a reflected wave that is reflected at each position in the subject, a scan line signal acquisition unit which acquires a plurality of signals corresponding to the reflected waves from each position in the subject as scan line signals by using a plurality of reception signals outputted from the conversion elements, and a processing unit which acquires moving information of the object by using the plurality of scan line signals. The processing unit acquires the moving information of the object on the basis of a distribution of cross-correlation values on a plane represented by two axes including an axis of time difference and an axis of distance difference by using a plurality of cross-correlation values between scan line signals at different positions.

Claim (Index 9):
A subject information acquisition method for acquiring moving information of an object in a subject, the subject information acquisition method comprising:\n a step of receiving a plurality of reception signals outputted from a plurality of conversion elements by transmitting an elastic wave to the subject and receiving a reflected wave that is reflected at each position in the subject; a step of acquiring a plurality of signals corresponding to the reflected waves from each position in the subject as scan line signals by using the plurality of reception signals; and a step of acquiring the moving information of the object by using the plurality of scan line signals, wherein in the step of acquiring the moving information, the moving information of the object, where a decrease of cross-correlation values due to a temporal change of the object is considered, is acquired by using a plurality of cross-correlation values between scan line signals at different positions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29851
- Patent Class: 600.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14356377', '12995536', '13128245', '14156554', '15659327']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4579827388039539
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5257741770666631
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4647618826302248
- Mean Citation Score: 229.38968
- Max Citation Score: 373.4562
- Similarity Product: 342.6966447163582

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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