PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15894073
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["382", "103000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for pattern tracking. The method includes the steps of performing a foreground detection process to determine a hand-pill-hand region, performing image segmentation to separate the determined hand portion of the hand-pill-hand region from the pill portion thereof, building three reference models, one for each hand region and one for the pill region, initializing a dynamic model for tracking the hand-pill-hand region, determining N possible next positions for the hand-pill-hand region, for each such determined position, determining various features, building a new model for that region in accordance with the determined position, for each position, comparing the new model and a reference model, determining a position whose new model generates a highest similarity score, determining whether that similarity score is greater than a predetermined threshold, and wherein if it is determined that the similarity score is greater than the predetermined threshold, the object is tracked.

Claim (Index 4):
A method for tracking a pill in a patient's hand, comprising the steps of:\n performing a foreground detection process of an image or series of images to determine a hand-pill-hand region; performing image segmentation of the image or sequence of images to separate the determined hand portion of the hand-pill-hand region from the pill portion thereof; building one or more reference models including at least the hand region and the pill region; determining a feature vector of the hand hand-pill-hand region; comparing the determined feature vector to one or more reference feature vectors; determining a distance between the determined feature vector and each of the one or more reference feature vectors; and determining an image or set of images corresponding to the determined feature vector to be similar to an image or set of images whose corresponding feature vector when the determined distance is less than a predetermined threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27778
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13110500', '15605695', '15792723', '14373596', '14844815']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2990148862697928
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5073849293769719
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3198518905805106
- Mean Citation Score: 201.09504
- Max Citation Score: 282.87714
- Similarity Product: 205.6983846327567

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