PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868376
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["345", "426000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for projecting planar and 3D images through water or liquid onto a surface include creating a 3D model of the body of liquid and surface and 3D models of creative elements to be used in scenes. Animating the 3D models of the creative elements, placing them inside the 3D model of the body of liquid. Lighting the animated creative elements, rendering planar animations of the modeled creative elements and, using projection and texturing software, virtually projecting the planar animations back onto the surface of the 3D model of the body of liquid from the same camera position in order to “bake in” a warped transformation of the digitally rendered planar animations. Digitally rendering a 3D animation of the warped, transformed planar animations, and playing or looping the digitally rendered 3D animation through the body of liquid on a digital video player or digital server.

Claim (Index 9):
A method comprising:\n a) selecting a resort swimming pool or hotel swimming pool for projecting images through, the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool contained within a surface defining the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool; b) gathering exact measurements of an outer rim as well as the inside surface area of the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool by hand or from CAD drawings, blueprints or a laser scanner; c) creating a digital virtual 3D model of the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool and the surface defining the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool by loading the measurements into a memory of a digital computer, the computer including at least one processor programmed by computer software sufficient to make the digital virtual 3D images of the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool contained within the surface defining the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool; d) creating digital virtual 3D models of creative elements to be used in one or more scenes using the digital computer and the computer software; e) animating the digital virtual 3D models making sure that moveable creative elements (for example, human characters and non-human creatures) travel within the digital virtual 3D model of the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool contained within a surface defining the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool; f) placing the animated digital virtual 3D modeled creative elements inside the digital virtual 3D model of the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool using the digital virtual 3D model of the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool and the surface defining the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool to virtually place the digitally animated digital virtual 3D modeled creative elements inside the digital virtual 3D model of the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool and cast shadows onto the digital virtual 3D model of the surface defining the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool; g) lighting the animated digital virtual 3D modeled creative elements using the programmed digital computer programmed with one or more digital virtual 3D lighting programs in such a way to cast the shadows of the animated digital virtual 3D modeled creative elements on the digital virtual 3D model of the surface defining the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool, causing enhanced 3D augmentation in the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool when the animation is played therein; h) creating digital rendered planar animations of the lighted, animated digital virtual 3D modeled creative elements and/or stills by:\n A) rendering the lighted, animated digital virtual 3D modeled creative elements and/or stills from a virtual camera directly above the virtual resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool in the 3D virtual model if the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool and the surface defining the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool are located in the center of a viewing area; or \n B) rendering the lighted, animated digital virtual 3D modeled creative elements and/or stills from a virtual camera located at a center of a side vantage point in the 3D virtual model if the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool and surface defining the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool are to be viewed from one side only; \n i) using the programmed digital computer, virtually projecting the digital rendered planar animations back onto the digital virtual 3D model of the surface defining the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool of an empty digital virtual 3D model of the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool from the same virtual camera position as in the previous step, thereby electronically baking forced perspective images of the digital rendered planar animations onto the digital virtual 3D model of the surface defining the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool; j) digitally rendering a 3D animation of the electronically baked forced perspective images of the digital rendered planar animations from a virtual position that is at the same angle and position as a planned angle and location of a digital physical projector to be installed at a site of the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool; and k) at the site, installing the digital physical projector as planned on a structure above or to one side of the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool in the same position as the virtual position, connecting the digital physical projector to a video player or server capable of playing digital and video images, loading the digitally rendering a 3D animation into the video player or server, waiting until the sun sets or reasonable darkness if the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool is outdoors, focusing the digital physical projector and lining up the digital virtual 3D model of the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool with the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool while projecting the digital virtual 3D model of the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool onto the surface defining the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool and containing the resort swimming pool or the hotel swimming pool, and playing and/or looping the digitally rendering a 3D animation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 62.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33824
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14935594', '14843088', '15692329', '13589357', '12040573']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6477242004117663
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5977370544178796
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6427254858123777
- Mean Citation Score: 253.61575
- Max Citation Score: 517.2989
- Similarity Product: 464.81709395535006

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

Dataset: test