PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860760
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["351", "206000"]

Abstract:
An image processing apparatus that processes a tomographic image generated by using tomographic signals acquired by subjecting a subject to optical coherence tomographic imaging, includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire the tomographic signals, and a generation unit configured to generate a tomographic image based on a representative value in each pixel position of the tomographic image, generated by using the tomographic signals, the generation unit includes a region determination unit configured to determine a target region where contrast is reduced in the tomographic image, by using tomographic signals, and an estimation unit configured to estimate an estimation value, by performing statistical processing on tomographic signals corresponding to a pixel position of the tomographic image out of the tomographic signals, and the generation unit generates the tomographic image with the estimation value as the representative value in the target region.

Claim (Index 15):
An image processing method that processes a tomographic image generated by using tomographic signals acquired by subjecting a subject to optical coherence tomographic imaging, comprising:\n acquiring the tomographic signals; and generating the tomographic image by using the tomographic signals, wherein the generating the tomographic image includes:\n determining a target region where contrast is reduced in the tomographic image, by using the tomographic signals; \n estimating an estimation value by performing statistical processing on tomographic signals of the target region out of the tomographic signals; and \n generating the tomographic image with the estimation value as a pixel value in the target region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61404
- Patent Class: 351.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15797311', '14011363', '14161733', '15408867', '14963867']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5556150918309464
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4880527004221179
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5488588526900635
- Mean Citation Score: 266.75774
- Max Citation Score: 271.14697
- Similarity Product: 236.7107138119227

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

Dataset: test