PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918595
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["348", "157000"]

Abstract:
A method and system for determining whether a spherical element impacts with a component of a playing field, or arranged on or proximate thereto. The method includes acquiring images of a surveillance area of a field that covers at least part of said component, such as a delimiting perimeter line of a game area or a target, performing an approximate detection of an impact of a spherical element relative to that component or proximate thereto, with an object detection and recognition system that can discern when the detected object is indeed a spherical element, automatically selecting one of the images acquired for the same point in time and that includes the area where said impact has occurred, and analysing the selected image to check if the spherical element has impacted or not with the component.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for determining whether a spherical element impacts with a component of a playing field, or with a component arranged on said playing field or proximate to said playing field, said playing field being made up of game areas, where the method comprises the steps of:\n a) acquiring with detection devices comprising at least a plurality of high speed cameras a sequence of images of at least one area of surveillance of said playing field covering at least part of at least said component and storing the sequence of images on a memory; b) performing by a processor of a computer system operatively connected with said detection devices, when the detected object is indeed a spherical element, an approximate detection of the impact of the spherical element with said component or proximate thereto; c) automatically selecting, by the processor in response to said approximate detection, at least one image, from said sequence of images, acquired for the same point in time and that includes the area where said impact took place; and d) analyzing said at least one selected image to check when the spherical element has really impacted or not with said component; wherein:\n prior to said approximate detection of the impact of step b), a pre-detection of the passage of the spherical element through at least two points located at different heights is performed with at least the detection devices, and based on said pre-detection, a prediction of the trajectory to be followed by the spherical element towards the ground and a predetermination or predefinition of an approximate area where the impact or bounce will occur is performed by the processor, said pre-detection being performed using at least two detection devices.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88158
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14785046', '10099532', '13521984', '15370993', '12281202']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5718740751867014
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.556540130077175
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5703406806757487
- Mean Citation Score: 243.428498
- Max Citation Score: 409.44705
- Similarity Product: 382.84585413272384

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test