PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938526
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["345", "419000"]

Abstract:
A method for generating graphics of a three-dimensional (3D) virtual environment includes: receiving, with a processor, a first camera position in the 3D virtual environment and a first viewing direction in the 3D virtual environment; receiving, with the processor, weather data including first precipitation information corresponding to a first geographic region corresponding to the first camera position in the 3D virtual environment; defining, with the processor, a bounding geometry at first position that is a first distance from the first camera position in the first viewing direction, the bounding geometry being dimensioned so as to cover a field of view from the first camera position in the first viewing direction; and rendering, with the processor, a 3D particle system in the 3D virtual environment depicting precipitation only within the bounding geometry, the 3D particle system having features depending on the first precipitation information.

Claim (Index 3):
The method according to  claim 2 , the updating the rendering of the 3D particle system comprising:\n removing particles of the 3D particle system that were within the closed 3D bounding geometry at the first position but are outside the closed 3D bounding geometry after the closed 3D bounding geometry is moved to the second position; continuing to render particles of the 3D particle system that were within the closed 3D bounding geometry at the first position and remain within the closed 3D bounding geometry after the closed 3D bounding geometry is moved to the second position; and spawning new particles of the of the 3D particle system at positions that are within the closed 3D bounding geometry after the closed 3D bounding geometry is moved to the second position but were outside the closed 3D bounding geometry at the first position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53968
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15938726', '14836387', '13843535', '14210587', '13834474']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6309933172722761
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5017666054333159
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6180706460883801
- Mean Citation Score: 186.044072
- Max Citation Score: 213.3718
- Similarity Product: 129.8873331204176

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

Dataset: test