PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16125383
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["700", "214000"]

Abstract:
A shelf space allocation management device manages products allocated on shelves aligned in a store by use of an image captured by an imaging device. The shelf space allocation management device acquires an image including a position assumed to be changed in allocation status of each product on each shelf, it determines whether the type and the allocation status of each product reflected in the image match the predetermined type and the predetermined allocation status; then, it determines whether to execute a product allocation inspection based on the determination result. Herein, the shelf space allocation management device specifies a position at which a person conducts a behavior to cause any change in the allocation status of each product on each shelf, and therefore it may control the imaging device to capture an image including the position. It is possible to carry out a product allocation inspection for each period determined in advance depending on the type of each product, or it is possible to carry out a product allocation inspection being triggered by a customer purchasing each product.

Claim (Index 15):
A shelf space allocation management method for managing products allocated on a shelf, the shelf space allocation management method comprising:\n acquiring a first image taken by a mobile imaging device that moves behind a person under an automatic tracking mode; determining whether a person captured in the first image has performed a predetermined action on the shelf; specifying position information of the shelf for a product allocation inspection based on a determination result of an action of the person; changing the mode from the automatic tracking mode to a position control mode after specifying the position information of the shelf; moving the mobile imaging device to an image-capture position based on specified position information; adjusting direction of the mobile imaging device upon determining that the mobile imaging device reaches the image-capture position; controlling the mobile imaging device to capture an image of the shelf at the image-capture position; determining whether a type and an allocation status of a plurality of products reflected in a second image match a predetermined type and a predetermined allocation status of the plurality of products, respectively, wherein the second image taken by the mobile imaging device; and executing a product allocation inspection based on a determination result of the type and the allocation status of the product.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13504457', '15148370', '12238847', '11534162', '14155565']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.407118223825983
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4830973774889605
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4147161391922808
- Mean Citation Score: 185.400888
- Max Citation Score: 191.95566
- Similarity Product: 129.2289917543292

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

Dataset: test