PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15767426
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["209", "509000"]

Abstract:
Provided are: an image processing device; a fine particle sorting device; and an image processing method, in which electric charge can be easily and accurately applied to a droplet. An image processing device including: a control unit adapted to set a light source lighting delay time to control a light source, the light source lighting delay time indicating a time from a time point when a fine particle in fluid is detected by a detection unit until a time point when the light source is turned on for the fine particle included in a droplet formed from the fluid; a processing unit adapted to identify positional information of the fine particle on the basis of an image of the fine particle acquired in accordance with lighting of the light source during the set light source lighting delay time; and a recording unit adapted to record, in a correlated manner, the positional information identified in the processing unit and the light source lighting delay time. The processing unit determines, as a drop delay time, a light source lighting delay time correlated to target positional information that is predetermined positional information, and the drop delay time indicates a time from the time point when the fine particle is detected by the detection unit until the droplet is formed from the fluid containing the fine particle.

Claim (Index 4):
The image processing device according to  claim 1 , wherein the processing unit calculates a correlation equation between the positional information and the light source lighting delay time on the basis of a plurality of different light source lighting delay times recorded in the recording unit and positional information recorded in a manner correlated to each of the plurality of different light source lighting delay times.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.1039
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14190638', '13363112', '15115812', '15919012', '11752505']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6759452708200187
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.489549325345745
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6573056762725913
- Mean Citation Score: 169.873
- Max Citation Score: 175.38678000000004
- Similarity Product: 114.7696574837208

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