PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16217943
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["348", "046000"]

Abstract:
A scanner includes a camera, a light source for generating a probe light incorporating a spatial pattern, an optical system for transmitting the probe light towards the object and for transmitting at least a part of the light returned from the object to the camera, a focus element within the optical system for varying a position of a focus plane of the spatial pattern on the object, unit for obtaining at least one image from said array of sensor elements, unit for evaluating a correlation measure at each focus plane position between at least one image pixel and a weight function, a processor for determining the in-focus position(s) of each of a plurality of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, or each of a plurality of groups of image pixels for a range of focus plane positions, and transforming in-focus data into 3D real world coordinates.

Claim (Index 2):
A scanner for determining the 3D geometry and color of at least a part of the surface of an object, said scanner comprising:\n at least one camera accommodating an array of sensor elements, a light source for generating a probe light, an optical system for transmitting the probe light towards the object along an optical path thereby illuminating at least a part of the object in a plurality of configurations and for transmitting at least a part of the light returned from the object to the at least one camera, wherein the plurality of configurations is in the form of a time-varying illumination pattern, such that the 3D geometry is determined based on the time-varying illumination pattern, and a hardware processor configured to:\n selectively switch a color of the probe light, thereby illuminating the object with different colors at different times, \n record different images by the at least one camera at the different times, thereby recording images of the object with the different colors, and \n combine the different colors from the different images, thereby obtaining the color of the surface of the object.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23611
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14502230', '15974105', '13376427', '13996556', '14764087']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6113098736562248
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5148133248207327
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6016602187726756
- Mean Citation Score: 289.68712
- Max Citation Score: 319.2886
- Similarity Product: 297.7415310420513

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