PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16192148
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["356", "402000"]

Abstract:
A color measuring apparatus includes a measurement assembly which includes at least one illumination assembly for applying substantially parallel illumination light to a measurement spot of a measurement object and a pick-up assembly for capturing the measurement light radiated back from the measurement spot in an observation direction and for converting the same into corresponding electrical signals. The illumination assembly includes at least two illumination subassemblies which illuminate the measurement spot from different illumination sub-directions near a first preset nominal illumination direction, each with preferably parallel illumination light. By the illumination from different illumination sub-directions slightly deviating from the nominal illumination direction, angular errors of the illumination assembly can be compensated for in a simple manner.

Claim (Index 31):
A method of making a measurement with illumination angle error compensation in a color measurement device, the measurement device including at least one illumination assembly having a nominal illumination direction with respect to a measurement spot of a measurement object, the illumination assembly including at least two illumination subassemblies each including a light source and having illumination sub-directions which are angularly offset to each other by an angle (\u0394\u03b5) of 4\u00b0-8\u00b0 and enclose the first nominal illumination direction between them, a pick-up assembly for capturing the measurement light radiated back from the measurement spot along an observation direction and for converting the same into corresponding electrical signals, and adjustment parameters for the illumination subassemblies stored in a data storage, the adjustment parameters comprising individual activation durations for each subassembly weighted to provide illumination for a weighted illumination measurement that corrects for the difference between the actual illumination angle and the nominal illumination angle said method comprising:\n activating the pick-up assembly for a first time window; \n individually controlling activation durations of at least two of the illumination subassemblies within one illumination assembly in accordance with the adjustment parameters and within the first time window; and \n obtaining a first weighted illumination measurement from the at least one pick-up assembly measurement from two or more illumination sub-directions of an illumination assembly.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89062
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14798920', '15094779', '14013170', '14067169', '16148187']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6407520558543145
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5575730468880398
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6324341549576871
- Mean Citation Score: 222.894534
- Max Citation Score: 414.4376
- Similarity Product: 376.74990504784586

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

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