PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16078519
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["358", "001600"]

Abstract:
A method for locating a printing substrate moving on a conveyor surface. The method includes i) providing the printing substrate moving on a conveyor surface at a selectable speed and in a feed direction, ii) providing an illumination means configured to emit a light beam incident on the conveyor surface according to a predetermined angle, iii) acquiring a predetermined plurality of lines of the substrate, as a function of a line frequency defined as a function of an acquisition rate, iv) generating a primary image as a function of the predetermined plurality of lines, v) detecting, from the primary image, points representative of the substrate, and vi) calculating location coordinates of the substrate relative to the first predefined reference as a function of the plurality of representative points.

Claim (Index 14):
A device for locating a printing substrate moving on a conveyor surface in a feed direction at a selectable speed, the device comprising:\n (a) a first acquisition means configured to acquire a predetermined plurality of lines of a printing substrate in movement as a function of a line frequency, wherein said line frequency is defined as a function of an acquisition rate; (b) an illumination means for illuminating the printing substrate, said illumination means configured to emit a light beam incident on a conveyor surface according to a predetermined angle, wherein the light beam generated appears as a linear stripe, orthogonal to a feed direction; and (c) a processing unit, in data connection with said first acquisition means, comprising:\n i) a receiver module configured to receive said predetermined plurality of lines acquired by said first acquisition means; \n ii) a generation module configured to generate a primary image (I_PR) as a function of said acquired predetermined plurality of lines acquired in step (a); \n iii) a detection module configured to detect, from said primary image, a plurality of points representative of said printing substrate, positioned on edges of said substrate, wherein the coordinates of said plurality of points are expressed in relation to a first predefined reference; and \n iv) a locating module configured to:\n receive, as input, said plurality of representative points; and \n calculate a plurality of location coordinates of said printing substrate relative to said first predefined reference, as a function of said plurality of representative points.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11765
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16078587', '14877285', '14398170', '15527385', '15095561']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4671139392640145
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5440221889298962
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4748047642306027
- Mean Citation Score: 189.101598
- Max Citation Score: 393.66742
- Similarity Product: 297.070159348594

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

Dataset: test