PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16205889
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["367", "088000"]

Abstract:
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are therefore provided for producing a 3D image of an underwater environment. An example method for providing an image of an underwater environment includes analyzing sonar returns to identify and display objects, such as fish or debris, in a 3D view. Such an image allows for differentiation between the sea floor and objects in a 3D sonar view. Some example methods provide for real-time tracking of fish. Further, the fish or other objects may be displayed over a continuous surface geometry based on sonar returns from a lake, sea, or river “floor.”

Claim (Index 19):
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having program code portions stored thereon, the program code portions configured, when said program product is run with a sonar signal processor, to:\n generate a 3D matrix based on a sonar return data received from an underwater environment, wherein the 3D matrix comprises a plurality of sonar returns defined by 3D positional values; determine, based on the 3D positional values of each of the plurality of sonar returns, one or more groups of sonar returns among the plurality of sonar returns in the 3D matrix associated with one or more objects in the underwater environment, wherein the one or more objects are different than a bottom surface of the underwater environment, by:\n generating, based on the 3D positional values of each of the plurality of sonar returns, a 3D representation of all of the plurality of sonar returns in the 3D matrix such that each of the plurality of sonar returns defines an x coordinate, a y coordinate, and a z coordinate; and \n determining one or more clusters among the plurality of sonar returns in the 3D representation, wherein the one or more clusters among the plurality of sonar returns in the 3D representation each comprise sonar returns that are within a threshold distance of each other within the 3D representation; and \n generate a 3D image of the one or more groups of sonar returns associated with the one or more objects in the underwater environment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67164
- Patent Class: 367.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15098603', '15060032', '14683573', '14683578', '14683583']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5994973439821003
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5738706495209217
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5969346745359825
- Mean Citation Score: 372.535946
- Max Citation Score: 460.34903
- Similarity Product: 434.1458022753317

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