PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16170174
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["235", "455000"]

Abstract:
A method of decoding one or more barcodes on a target object with an imaging scanner is described. The imaging scanner comprises an image sensor and a dynamic linear polarizer. The method includes the following: (1) capturing at least one image of the target object through the dynamic linear polarizer with the imaging sensor while the dynamic linear polarizer is set to a different defined polarization during each of N time periods; and (2) processing at least N images of the target object to decode the one or more barcodes on the target object. At least one image that is captured during each of the N time periods. Here, N is an integer that can be three, four, five, six, or other natural numbers.

Claim (Index 12):
An apparatus for decoding one or more barcodes on a target object comprising:\n an illumination light source; an auxiliary dynamic linear polarizer configured to generate illumination light by passing light from the illumination light source through the auxiliary dynamic linear polarizer; an imaging sensor having photosensitive elements configured to capture at least one image of the target object while the target object is illuminated by the illumination light through the auxiliary dynamic linear polarizer during each of N time periods, with the auxiliary dynamic linear polarizer being set to a different defined polarization during each of the N time periods, wherein N is an integer that is at least three; and a controller configured to process at least N images of the target object to decode the one or more barcodes on the target object, wherein the at least N images includes at least one image that is captured during each of the N time periods.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02899
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14226056', '14064115', '13324197', '14533453', '14259860']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5696787755748046
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4789159366515605
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5606024916824802
- Mean Citation Score: 186.830402
- Max Citation Score: 267.009
- Similarity Product: 232.2324525493384

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