PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16048179
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["382", "284000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a method and apparatus for combining perceived depths to construct a floor plan using cameras, such as depth cameras. The camera(s) perceive depths from the camera(s) to objects within a first field of view. The camera(s) is rotated to observe a second field of view partly overlapping the first field of view. The camera(s) perceives depths from the camera(s) to objects within the second field of view. The depths from the first and second fields of view are compared to find the area of overlap between the two fields of view. The depths from the two fields of view are then merged at the area of overlap to create a segment of a floor plan. The method is repeated wherein depths are perceived within consecutively overlapping fields of view and are combined to construct a floor plan of the environment as the camera is rotated.

Claim (Index 17):
The method of  claim 5 , comprising:\n simultaneously localizing the robot and mapping the working environment, wherein the spatial model comprises positions of obstacles in the working environment and values indicating confidence scores for those respective positions, wherein: the confidence scores are based on at least one of the following:\n quality of the captured data, \n noise in perceived depth, \n similarity between depths recorded from different fields of view, or \n confident scores of adjacent depths; and \n determining the spatial model comprises pruning or determining to not add positions of obstacles with a threshold confidence score that fail to satisfy a threshold from, or to, the spatial model.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.88136
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14856526', '14572712', '15353368', '15473327', '15844437']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2799724323633595
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4883807445329777
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3008132635803213
- Mean Citation Score: 176.94737
- Max Citation Score: 178.71423
- Similarity Product: 124.6737963763547

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