PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16219519
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["382", "106000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for measuring a distance to an object, be a device ( 100 ) having at least two cameras ( 104, 106 ), is described. One or more first images including the object are acquired by a first camera of the device and one or more first reference images are acquired by a second camera of the device, while the device is in a first position. One or more second images including the object and one or more second reference images are acquired by cameras of the device, while the device is in a second position, different from the first position. Based on the first and second reference images, information on the displacement of at least one camera of the device between the first and second position are determined. The distance from the device to the object is calculated based on the first and second images including the object and the determined information on the displacement of the at least one camera.

Claim (Index 20):
A computer program product for distance estimation, comprising: a computer readable non-transitory storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, which when executed by a computer performs:\n receiving one or more first images including an object acquired by a first camera of a device while the device is in a first position ; receiving one or more first reference images acquired by a second camera while the device is in the first position; after acquiring the one or more first images, displaying, to a user:\n an indication of an extent of matching between the one or more first reference images and a current image acquired by the second camera, the indication comprising a numerical score that indicates the extent of matching; and \n a stop instruction in response to the numerical score exceeding a predetermined threshold; \n receiving one or more second object images including the object acquired by the first camera while the device is in a second position; receiving one or more second reference images acquired by the second camera while the device is in the second position; determining, based on the one or more first and second reference images, information on a displacement of at least one camera of the device between acquiring the one or more first and one or more second reference images; and calculating a distance from the device to the object, based on the one or more first and second images including the object and the determined information on the displacement of the at least one camera, the calculation based on a fixed measurement.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.16071
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14783119', '14414347', '14140077', '11183228', '15534439']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3271756579957768
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4892472949050444
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3433828216867035
- Mean Citation Score: 173.67723800000005
- Max Citation Score: 263.36636
- Similarity Product: 228.719302914772

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