PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16267362
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["172", "002000"]

Abstract:
A method for weeding crops includes, at an autonomous machine: recording an image at the front of the autonomous machine; detecting a target plant and calculating an opening location for the target plant longitudinally offset and laterally aligned with the location of the first target plant; driving a weeding module to laterally align with the opening location; tracking the opening location relative to a longitudinal reference position of the weeding module; when the weeding module longitudinally aligns with the first opening location, actuating the blades of the first weeding module to an open position; recording an image proximal to the weeding module; and in response to detecting the blades of the weeding module in the open position: calculating an offset between the opening location and a reference position of the weeding module, based on the image; and updating successive opening locations calculated by the autonomous machine based on the offset.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 1 ,\n further comprising generating a first set of visual features of the first image; wherein calculating the first longitudinal offset between the first opening location and the longitudinal reference position of the first weeding module, based on the second image; and calculating the first lateral offset between the first opening location and the lateral reference position of the first weeding module, based on the second image further comprises;\n generating a second set of visual features of the second image; \n mapping the first set of visual features to the second set of visual features to generate a set of like features in the second image; \n detecting an estimated location of the first target plant in the second image based on the set of like features between the first set of visual features and the second set of visual features; and \n calculating an estimated first opening location based on the estimated location of the first target plant; \n calculating the first longitudinal offset between the first opening location and the longitudinal reference position of the first weeding module, based on the estimated first opening location; and \n calculating the first lateral offset between the first opening location and the lateral reference position of the first weeding module, based on the estimated first opening location.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.81034
- Patent Class: 172.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16260042', '15852749', '15693301', '15693336', '15693316']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6405278328536185
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.47231956398175
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6237070059664317
- Mean Citation Score: 110.808884
- Max Citation Score: 120.40467
- Similarity Product: 80.4789179537201

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

Dataset: test