PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16416326
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["382", "103000"]

Abstract:
There is provided herein an apparatus and method for roadside asset tracking and maintenance monitoring having a mobile unit with data capture devices for capturing roadside asset imagery, global positioning system (GPS) receivers and data interfaces for communicating with an asset management server. As such, the apparatus may take roadside imagery for automated asset identification which may include utilising an asset type image recognition technique for automating the identification of the roadside assets.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for roadside asset tracking and maintenance monitoring, the method comprising:\n periodically deploying a vehicle alongside a roadside section, the vehicle comprising:\n a grass cutter unit controllable to be moveable with respect to the vehicle; \n at least one digital camera configured to follow the movement of the grass cutter unit; \n a data capture device comprising:\n an asset proximity detector for detecting the proximity of roadside assets; \n an asset data capture device operably coupled to the at least one digital camera configured for capturing roadside asset image data, the asset data capture device triggered by the asset proximity detector; \n a global positioning system (GPS) receiver; and \n a data interface for communicating with an asset management server, the server comprising an asset tracking register database; \n \n receiving the roadside asset image data representing images taken of a plurality of roadside assets; receiving location data from the GPS receiver representing the respective locations the roadside assets; utilising an asset type image recognition technique for automating the identification of the roadside assets; comparing roadside asset data of the asset tracking register database to:\n record newly identified roadside assets and their respective locations in the asset tracking register database; and \n identify missing roadside assets.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.46296
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15543318', '14982212', '15775181', '15557824', '14202228']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2765415847139718
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5503651383250083
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3039239400750754
- Mean Citation Score: 217.608458
- Max Citation Score: 404.69604
- Similarity Product: 298.4340263814497

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