PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16217636
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["250", "226000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed are a scanner system and a method for recording surface geometry and surface color of an object where both surface geometry information and surface color information for a block of the image sensor pixels at least partly from one 2D image recorded by the color image sensor. A particular application is within dentistry, particularly for intraoral scanning.

Claim (Index 2):
A scanner system for recording surface geometry and surface color of an object, the scanner system comprising:\n a multichromatic light source configured to provide a multichromatic probe light for illumination of the object, at least one image sensor comprising an array of image sensor pixels to capture one or more 2D images of light received from the object, the at least one image sensor is arranged to capture 2D images of light received from the object, and a data processing system configured to use triangulation to derive surface geometry information for a first set of image pixels within a block of the image sensor pixels from a series of 2D images recorded by the at least one image sensor, the data processing system further configured to derive surface color information for a second set of image pixels within the block of the image sensor pixels from at least three 2D images recorded by the at least one image sensor, wherein the surface color information is obtained by combining the second set of the image sensor pixels from the at least three 2D images, where a first image of the at least three 2D images is recorded during illumination by an LED die having a first color, where a second image of the at least three 2D images is recorded during illumination by an LED die having a second color, where a third image of the at least three 2D images is recorded during illumination by a an LED die having a third color, wherein the first set of the image sensor pixels is different from the second set of the image sensor pixels, and wherein the at least three 2D images to derive surface color information are not taken concurrently with the series of 2D images used to derive the surface geometry.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.45238
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15888416', '14764087', '16217943', '13376427', '14502230']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6928151071948828
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.517227084038219
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6752563048792164
- Mean Citation Score: 246.215286
- Max Citation Score: 337.85297
- Similarity Product: 322.7717555686689

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