PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15887966
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["382", "133000"]

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices described herein enable single-image optical sectioning, even at depth within turbid media, such as human skin or other tissue. Embodiments can eliminate the need for multiple image samples or raster scans, making in-vivo or live biological imaging easier and faster than multi-image sectioning techniques. Better contrast and resolution than traditional three-phase structured illumination microscopy (SIM) is possible in turbid media. Embodiments enable imaging of cell nuclei. Resolution and contrast resulting from disclosed embodiments are less sensitive to motion of or within patients or other targets than confocal microscopy and three-phase SIM techniques. Three-dimensional images of target specimens can be provided based on a group of single-image optical sections. Real-time imaging can also be provided.

Claim (Index 15):
An optical sectioning device, comprising:\n memory configured to store an image of a target scene, the image captured with a structured illumination source applied thereto, the structured illumination having a spatial frequency; and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to estimate an out-of-focus component of the image using the spatial frequency, the processor further configured to subtract the out-of-focus component of the image from the image to obtain an in-focus component of the image, the processor further configured to spatially demodulate the in-focus component of the image to obtain a sectioned image of the target scene.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.48315
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12994413', '12341447', '14888257', '14380392', '12785334']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2937964965420676
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5075985771121043
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3151767045990713
- Mean Citation Score: 231.068182
- Max Citation Score: 253.49039
- Similarity Product: 178.02958266459942

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

Dataset: test