PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16214862
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["348", "071000"]

Abstract:
A system for improving imaging during a surgical procedure includes an image sensor coupled to a controller. The image sensor is coupled to capture a video, including a first image frame with a smoke occlusion due to surgical smoke, of the surgical procedure. The first image frame includes a plurality of pixels each having an imaged color representing a view of the tissue affected by the smoke occlusion. The controller stores instructions that when executed causes the system to perform operations. The operations include determining an estimated true color of each of the plurality of pixels. The estimated true color is closer to an unoccluded color of the tissue than the imaged color. The operations also include generating, in response to determining the estimated true color, a desmoked first image frame with a reduced amount of the smoke occlusion relative to the first image frame.

Claim (Index 6):
The system of  claim 4 , further comprising:\n a cauterizing instrument coupled to the controller, and wherein the controller includes further instructions that when executed by the controller causes the system to perform further operations including: monitoring an activation of the cauterizing instrument to detect a cauterization event; and in response to detecting the cauterization event, adjusting the conditional probability distribution of the transmittance values of the smoke occlusion to compensate for an increased likelihood the smoke occlusion is affecting the imaged color.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14860914', '15856298', '14862437', '15434122', '12124158']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5817932339689446
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4902238632683115
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5726362968988813
- Mean Citation Score: 135.82735119999998
- Max Citation Score: 168.69931
- Similarity Product: 105.86349231982707

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

Dataset: test