PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974295
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["396", "428000"]

Abstract:
A fixed-pivot camera support for fully-spherical imaging, includes a base, a support art, and a camera mount. The base is configured to move in a circular path centered about a pivot axis. The support arm has a proximal end attached to the base, and a distal end extending beyond the base toward the pivot axis. The camera mount is on the distal end and is configured to position an optical axis of a camera to intersect the pivot axis.

Claim (Index 7):
A method for capturing a panoramic image of a scene, comprising:\n capturing, with a camera mounted on a distal end of a support arm of a fixed-pivot camera support and having an optical axis extending in a first axis-direction away from the camera, a first image of a first scene-region of the scene when a pivot axis of the fixed-pivot camera support intersects an axial location on the optical axis; after capturing the first image, moving the fixed-pivot camera support along a circular path centered at the pivot axis such that (a) the axial location remains on pivot axis within a predetermined tolerance, (b) the optical axis extends in a second axis-direction different from the first axis-direction, and (c) no part of the fixed-pivot camera support intersects the pivot axis; and after moving the fixed-pivot camera support, capturing a second image of a second scene-region of the scene.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02326
- Patent Class: 396.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13081354', '12492458', '15394596', '15477108', '14848127']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6813409052720174
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4718797181243976
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6603947865572554
- Mean Citation Score: 117.41921299999998
- Max Citation Score: 124.987015
- Similarity Product: 83.79558887686312

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