PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16393575
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "068000"]

Abstract:
An endoscope apparatus includes a fiber optic cable with a proximal end and a distal end opposite the proximal end. The endoscope apparatus also includes a light source optically coupled to the proximal end of the fiber optic cable to emit visible light and excitation light into the fiber optic cable for output from the distal end. The light source is configured to emit both the visible light and the excitation light simultaneously, and a wavelength of the excitation light is outside a wavelength spectrum of the visible light. An image sensor is configured to receive a reflection of the visible light as reflected visible light.

Claim (Index 17):
A system for medical imaging, comprising:\n a fiber optic cable with a distal end and a proximal end opposite the distal end; a light source optically coupled to the proximal end of the fiber optic cable to emit visible light and excitation light into the fiber optic cable for output from the distal end; an image sensor coupled to the fiber optic cable to receive reflected visible light and fluorescence light; and a controller coupled to the light source and the image sensor, wherein the controller includes logic that when executed by the controller causes the system to perform operations including:\n emitting both the visible light and the excitation light simultaneously from the light source, wherein a wavelength of the excitation light is outside a wavelength spectrum of the visible light; \n receiving combined image data from the image sensor; \n separating visible image data from the combined image data, wherein the visible image data includes first color image data corresponding to first color photocharge, and second color image data corresponding to second color photocharge; and \n separating fluorescence image data from the combined image data, wherein the fluorescence image data corresponds to fluorescence photocharge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46667
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15411221', '11964330', '12955327', '10092033', '10767755']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5719310022262561
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5131807012795934
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5660559721315899
- Mean Citation Score: 203.022002
- Max Citation Score: 308.05838
- Similarity Product: 273.60428315724613

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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