PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16125383
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["700", "214000"]

Abstract:
A shelf space allocation management device manages products allocated on shelves aligned in a store by use of an image captured by an imaging device. The shelf space allocation management device acquires an image including a position assumed to be changed in allocation status of each product on each shelf, it determines whether the type and the allocation status of each product reflected in the image match the predetermined type and the predetermined allocation status; then, it determines whether to execute a product allocation inspection based on the determination result. Herein, the shelf space allocation management device specifies a position at which a person conducts a behavior to cause any change in the allocation status of each product on each shelf, and therefore it may control the imaging device to capture an image including the position. It is possible to carry out a product allocation inspection for each period determined in advance depending on the type of each product, or it is possible to carry out a product allocation inspection being triggered by a customer purchasing each product.

Claim (Index 12):
A shelf space allocation management device for managing products allocated on a shelf, the shelf space allocation management device comprising:\n a memory storing instructions; and one or more processors coupled to the memory, wherein the one or more processors are configured to execute the instructions to: acquire a first image taken by a mobile imaging device that moves behind a person under an automatic tracking mode; determine whether a person captured in the first image has performed a predetermined action on the shelf; specify position information of the shelf for a product allocation inspection based on a determination result of an action of the person; change the mode from the automatic tracking mode to a position control mode after specifying the position information of the shelf; move the mobile imaging device to an image-capture position based on specified position information; adjust direction of the mobile imaging device upon determining that the mobile imaging device reaches the image-capture position; control the mobile imaging device to capture an image of the shelf at the image-capture position; determine whether a type and an allocation status of a plurality of products reflected in a second image match a predetermined type and a predetermined allocation status of the plurality of products, respectively, wherein the second image taken by the mobile imaging device; and execute a product allocation inspection based on a determination result of the type and the allocation status of the product.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13504457', '15148370', '12238847', '11534162', '14155565']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4093432503666759
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.474058382899885
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4158147636199968
- Mean Citation Score: 185.400888
- Max Citation Score: 191.95566
- Similarity Product: 141.66266601509568

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

Dataset: test