PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15761075
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["356", "300000"]

Abstract:
A measuring device ( 10 ) for determining the location of one or more measurement points relative to the measuring device. The measuring device is arranged to be coupled to a non-contact distance measuring device or EDM ( 12 ) and one or more sensors ( 16 ) for determining the orientation of the EDM. The measuring device comprises an image capture device or ICD ( 20 ) operable to output digital images and being arranged to be coupled to the EDM such that the ICD moves in known registration with respect to the EDM. A controller ( 28 ) is arranged to receive data from the one or more sensors and the ICD. The controller is configured to: a) associate an image with the orientation of the EDM during exposure of the image; b) locate one of the measurement points within the image; and c) use the location of the measurement point within the image in combination with the EDM orientation to establish the direction of the measurement point with respect to the measuring device.

Claim (Index 20):
An array of measuring devices comprising:\n a first measuring device according to  claim 1 ; one or more further measuring devices each being configured to determine the direction of one or more measurement points relative to the further measuring device, each further measuring device comprising:\n an ICD operable to output digital images; \n one or more sensors for determining the orientation of the ICD; and \n a controller arranged to receive data from the one or more sensors and the ICD, the controller being configured to:\n (l) associate an image with the orientation of the ICD during exposure of the image; and \n (m) locate one of the measurement points within the image; and \n (n) use the location of the measurement point within the image in combination with the ICD orientation to establish the direction of the measurement point with respect to the further measuring device; and \n \n a synchronisation system configured to cause images to be captured synchronously by the first measuring device and the one or more further measuring devices, wherein:\n (o) the controller of the first measuring device is configured to project the three dimensional positions of a plurality of measurement points into image coordinates for every other measurement device; (p) the controller of each measurement device is configured to locate each measurement point in its respective image; and (q) one of the controllers is configured to use a known position and orientation of each measurement device within the world coordinate system together with intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of each ICD and the located position of each point in each image to determine the 3D position of each measurement point to be calculated relative to the measurement devices, \n such that steps (p) and (q) can be repeated to provide a stream of measurement data; one measurement for each image from the ICD of each measuring device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 58.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59722
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15389877', '13348740', '14363269', '13696982', '14363098']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.680655491517593
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4781790567313891
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6604078480389726
- Mean Citation Score: 161.611182
- Max Citation Score: 181.24504
- Similarity Product: 130.1295625356102

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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