PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925467
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["235", "462040"]

Abstract:
This patent specification describes a barcode-reading system for a mobile device. The mobile device include an image sensor array for generating a color image of a target area. The color image includes sub-images each captured with a portion of the image sensor array sensitive to different bands of illumination. The barcode reading system may include an optic system configured to produce a targeting illumination pattern of a particular band of illumination passed by an optical filter within the target area. An image processing function of a barcode-reading application may create a grayscale composite image of a barcode by combining the sub-images. In combining the sub-images, a contribution from a sub-image captured by a portion of the image sensor array most sensitive to the particular band for the targeting illumination may be smaller than a contribution from the other two sub-images captured by other portions of the image sensor array.

Claim (Index 1):
A barcode reading system for a mobile device, the mobile device comprising a processor, a memory, a camera comprising a color image capture system including an image sensor array for generating a color image of a target area, and a white light source for generating illumination encompassing a first band of illumination, a second band of illumination, and a third band of illumination, wherein the color image comprises a first sub-image captured with a portion of the image sensor array sensitive to the first band of illumination, a second sub-image captured with a portion of the image sensor array sensitive to the second band of illumination, and a third sub-image captured with a portion of the image sensor array sensitive to the third band of illumination, the barcode reading system comprising:\n a barcode reading accessory including an optic system positioned within a field of illumination of the white light source when the barcode reading accessory is secured to the mobile device, the optic system comprising:\n an optical filter for passing a fourth band of illumination generated by the white light source, wherein one of a first portion of the image sensor array, a second portion of the image sensor array, and a third portion of the image sensor array are more sensitive to the fourth band of illumination than the other two portions; and \n a collimating optic for narrowing the field of illumination of the white light source to produce a targeting illumination pattern of the fourth band of illumination passed by the optical filter within the target area; and \n a barcode reading application stored in the memory and executable by the processor, the barcode reading application including:\n an image capture function for controlling the white light source and the camera to simultaneously capture the color image of the target area illuminated by illumination generated by the white light source and filtered by the optical filter; \n an image processing function for creating a grayscale composite image of the barcode within the target area by combining each of the first sub-image, the second sub-image, and the third sub-image using weights, wherein a contribution from a sub-image captured by a portion of the image sensor array most sensitive to the fourth band of illumination is smaller than a contribution from the other two sub-images captured by the other two portions of the image sensor array; \n a decoder function for receiving the grayscale composite image of the barcode and generating decoded data representing data encoded in the barcode; and \n a relay function for sending the decoded data to a remote server via a wireless connection established between the mobile device and a network.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26087
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15207484', '15207492', '15207497', '15675571', '15856964']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6208197160918779
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5791538944573345
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6166531339284236
- Mean Citation Score: 422.59785200000016
- Max Citation Score: 482.05405
- Similarity Product: 479.2785324694455

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

Dataset: test