PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976547
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["345", "633000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for augmenting an appearance of a hilt to simulate a bladed weapon. A hilt may be augmented with a blade of a bladed weapon by detecting a landmark associated with the hilt, determining a position and/or an orientation of the hilt, determining an overlay image comprising the blade of the bladed weapon, wherein the blade is placed within the overlay image according to the determined position and/or the determined orientation of the hilt, and displaying the overlay image so that the blade of the bladed weapon appears to be attached to the hilt.

Claim (Index 12):
A method to simulate a weapon, the method comprising:\n generating visual output signals conveying visual information within a field of view of an image sensor, the visual output signals facilitating determination of a position and an orientation of a landmark carried by a housing of a physical object worn or held by a user, the landmark indicating a reference point for the physical object that facilitates determination of a position and an orientation of the housing; generating first motion and/or orientation output signals conveying motion and/or orientation information of a display, the first motion and/or orientation output signals being generated by a first inertial measurement unit carried by the display, wherein the first motion and/or orientation output signals are separate and independent from the visual output signals and the first motion and/or orientation output signals facilitate determination of the position and the orientation of the housing when the landmark carried by the housing is not within the field of view of the image sensor; generating second motion and/or orientation output signals conveying motion and/or orientation information of the housing, the second motion and/or orientation output signals generated by a second inertial measurement unit carried by the housing, wherein the second motion and/or orientation output signals are separate and independent from the visual output signals and the second motion and/or orientation output signals facilitate determination of the position and the orientation of the housing when the landmark is not within the field of view of the image sensor; when the landmark is within the field of view of the image sensor:\n detecting the landmark based on the visual output signals; \n determining the position and/or the orientation of the landmark; and \n determining the position and/or the orientation of the housing based on the position and/or the orientation of the landmark; \n when the landmark is not within the field of view of the image sensor, determining the position and/or the orientation of the housing with respect to the display based on the first motion and/or orientation output signals and the second motion and/or orientation output signals; determining an overlay image comprising a visual of the weapon, wherein the visual is placed within the overlay image according to the position and/or the orientation of the housing such that the visual is placed within the overlay image based on the visual output signals when the landmark is within the field of view of the image sensor and the visual is placed within the overlay image based on the first motion and/or orientation output signals and the second motion and/or orientation output signals when the landmark is not within the field of view of the image sensor; and effectuating displaying of the overlay image on the display.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20833
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15704441', '15001160', '15259019', '15451082', '15006934']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6753533553932343
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5534965577873683
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6631676756326477
- Mean Citation Score: 292.275214
- Max Citation Score: 421.9419
- Similarity Product: 358.05357125154734

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