PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918595
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["348", "157000"]

Abstract:
A method and system for determining whether a spherical element impacts with a component of a playing field, or arranged on or proximate thereto. The method includes acquiring images of a surveillance area of a field that covers at least part of said component, such as a delimiting perimeter line of a game area or a target, performing an approximate detection of an impact of a spherical element relative to that component or proximate thereto, with an object detection and recognition system that can discern when the detected object is indeed a spherical element, automatically selecting one of the images acquired for the same point in time and that includes the area where said impact has occurred, and analysing the selected image to check if the spherical element has impacted or not with the component.

Claim (Index 8):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein said element of the playing field is a target arranged in at least one of said game areas, which are delimited by perimeter lines, where:\n said step a) comprises acquiring a sequence of images of at least one area of surveillance of said playing field covering at least part of said target; said step b) comprises performing an approximate detection of a bounce of a spherical element on said at least one target, or proximate thereto; said step c) comprises automatically selecting, in response to said approximate detection, at least one image from said sequence of images acquired for the same point in time and that includes the area where said bounce took place; and said step d) comprises analyzing, upon request of a player or umpire or automatically upon selection of the step c), the selected image, of which there must be at least one, to check when the spherical element has really bounced or not on the target of step b).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88158
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14785046', '10099532', '13521984', '15370993', '12281202']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5996666342781566
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5604124488213855
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5957412157324795
- Mean Citation Score: 243.428498
- Max Citation Score: 409.44705
- Similarity Product: 405.7065527411342

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