PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15777116
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["356", "612000"]

Abstract:
A method is proposed for inspecting cylinder-shaped elongated elements for smoking articles that provides projecting from a first half-space a first stripe of light onto an external face of a first elongated element and projecting from a second half-space onto the first elongated element a second stripe of light. The method reconstructs, by means of a first identified curved line and a second identified curved line respectively in a first acquired view and in a second acquired view of the first elongated element, a first closed curved section profile of the first elongated element and identifies possible deformations of the reconstructed first closed curved profile with respect to an ideal section profile. The method further includes the step of arranging an ideal elongated element alongside the first elongated element, respectively in a reference position and in a first position, inspecting simultaneously the first elongated element and the ideal elongated element by the first stripe of light and the second stripe of light reconstructing, by a first identified curved line and a second identified curved line respectively in the first view and in the second view a first closed curved section profile of the ideal elongated element monitoring the reconstructed closed curved profile of the ideal elongated element generating a warning if the reconstructed closed curved profile of the ideal elongated element is different from an ideal section profile, for example circular.

Claim (Index 6):
The method according to  claim 1 , and further including the following steps: generating a single stripe of light by a single projector of a projecting device; interposing between the first elongated element and the single stripe of light a shield of the projecting device to split the single stripe of light in a first portion of the stripe of light and into a second portion of the stripe of light; arranging first deflectors of the first portion of the stripe of light in the first half-space and second deflectors of the second portion of the stripe of light in the second half-space to obtain the first stripe of light projected from the first half-space and the second stripe of light projected from the second half-space from the single stripe of light; providing a single 3D profile optical apparatus of a three-dimensional optical scanning assembly adapted to acquire, in a single image both the first view from the first deflectors and the second view from the second deflectors, the first deflectors being adapted to generate a respective virtual mirror view of the first view and the second deflectors being adapted to generate a respective virtual mirror view of the second view.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.47826
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15777125', '12972386', '14837347', '12243830', '15083317']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6504477922714782
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5812904877073314
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6435320618150635
- Mean Citation Score: 206.79752
- Max Citation Score: 474.29
- Similarity Product: 403.6746210664511

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

Dataset: test