PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876233
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["382", "131000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an in vivo movement tracking apparatus configured to track a portion of interest that moves in vivo, in which accuracy and robustness of tracking are improved. The apparatus is configured to determine an estimated position of ah organ in a biological image based on the past movement of the organ and search for contour points corresponding to a plurality of control points, respectively, representing a contour shape of the organ in a region corresponding to the estimated position, to thereby determine an estimated contour of the organ based on the contour points. The in vivo movement tracking apparatus is configured to determine a position of a portion of interest, which moves in association with the organ, based on the estimated contour with reference to previously acquired sample data regarding a positional relationship between a contour of the organ and the portion of interest.

Claim (Index 4):
The in vivo movement tracking apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the at least one storage device is configured to further store:\n the biological image; and a plurality of instructions for causing, when being executed by the at least one processor, the at least one processor to perform:\n region-to-be-complemented setting processing for distinguishing a clear region having a clear image quality from an unclear region having an unclear image quality based on a predetermined criteria in an image of the organ of concern appearing on the biological image and determining a region to be complemented, which is formed of at least one polygon containing the unclear region and having the control points as vertices; and \n image synthesis processing for reading out, from the at least one storage device, the biological image in a polygon that is contained in the clear region and has, as vertices, the control points common, to the control points of the at least one polygon in the region to be complemented, and subjecting the read biological image in the polygon to linear transformation to match the read biological image in the polygon to the at least one polygon in the region to be complemented, to thereby synthesize the biological image subjected to the linear transformation with the region to be complemented.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.56667
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15867302', '12126032', '13930042', '11165565', '12695397']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2927380431938735
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4918287716854452
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3126471160430306
- Mean Citation Score: 151.27909599999995
- Max Citation Score: 161.6797
- Similarity Product: 107.62228667663337

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