PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16021587
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["348", "039000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for identifying the orientation of an image in a spherical format. A spherical format is created of an image obtained by a camera, the spherical format comprising a notional sphere that has a centre corresponding to the position from which the image was obtained by the camera. A first surface represented in the image had a first orientation and was at a first distance from the camera when the image was obtained. A plurality of lines are obtained in the spherical format, each line defined by two endpoints in spherical coordinates, wherein each line intersects with at least one other line. For each of a plurality of rotational definitions of the sphere, the spherical coordinates of the endpoints are transformed into a Cartesian coordinate system relative to the rotational definition, thereby creating rotated lines, and a cumulative deviation, from a predetermined angle, is determined of angles between intersecting rotated lines. A preferred rotational definition is identified as the rotational definition that has the smallest cumulative deviation, and it can be used to adjust calculations carried out with respect to spherical coordinates within the spherical format.

Claim (Index 17):
Apparatus according to  claim 16 , wherein said processor is configured to identify said location of said endpoint by:\n calculating a relative distance from said centre of the plane to the intersection of said plane with said line, said relative distance being relative to said first distance; and using said relative distance to calculate relative coordinates in said Cartesian coordinate system; wherein said processor is configured to either: a) modify said relative distance by said first distance before calculating said relative coordinates, wherein said relative coordinates are equal to said location; or b) modify said relative coordinates by said first distance to produce said location.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24176
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15473773', '12043036', '13162237', '15814314', '14102935']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6240987914349739
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5037813287686274
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6120670451683393
- Mean Citation Score: 168.3385
- Max Citation Score: 223.37947000000003
- Similarity Product: 140.35420989806892

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

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