PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885744
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["382", "103000"]

Abstract:
An out-of-stock detection system notifies store management that a product is out of stock. The out-of-stock detection system collects image data from shopper client devices that are attached to shopping carts or hand-held baskets being used by shoppers in the store. The shopper client devices include one or more cameras that capture images of the store as the shoppers travel through the store. The out-of-stock detection system detects products in the image data and determines whether any products are out of stock based on the products that are detected. For example, the out-of-stock detection system may determine which products should be detected in the image data and identify as out of stocks the products that are not actually detected in the image data. Upon identifying an item as out-of-stock, the out-of-stock detection system notifies the store management that the item is out of stock.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n receiving image data from a shopper client device, the image data capturing an area of a store; generating one or more bounding boxes based on the received image data, the one or more bounding boxes identifying one or more empty portions of the store; detecting one or more price tags based on the image data; associating each bounding box of the one or more bounding boxes with a price tag of the one or more price tag based on a location of each bounding box within the image data and a location of each price tag within the image data; extracting product information from each price tag based on the image data, the product information from each price tag describing a product associated with the price tag; identifying one or more out-of-stock items based on the extract product information from each price tag of the one or more price tags and the one or more bounding boxes; and transmitting notification of the identified one or more products to a store client device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14085
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15471813', '15184444', '11842322', '10977078', '15452554']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3168172166718727
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4830289657754867
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3334383915822341
- Mean Citation Score: 165.1993
- Max Citation Score: 173.09377
- Similarity Product: 117.38817223136785

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

Dataset: test