PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880542
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["345", "667000"]

Abstract:
A system and a method for estimating a size of an object in an image are provided. The method is implemented on images captured and processed by an image processor for increasing the efficiency and quality of the estimation of an object size in the image. The method includes at least following steps: providing a pixel image including at least one object and selecting a pixel on the object; calculating pixel standard deviations for pixels lying within an increasing window, to generate a graph of window size versus standard deviation; checking whether a curve of the graph of window size versus standard deviation represents a monotonically decreasing trend or not.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for estimating a size of an object in an image, the method being implemented on images captured and processed by an image processor for increasing the efficiency and quality of the estimation of an object size in the image, the method comprising:\n step  101 : providing a pixel image including at least one object and selecting a pixel on the object; step  102 : calculating pixel standard deviations for pixels lying within an increasing window, to generate a graph of window size versus standard deviation; step  103 : checking whether a curve of the graph of window size versus standard deviation represents a monotonically decreasing trend or not; if the curve of the graph does not represent a monotonically decreasing trend, then following steps are performed,\n step  104 : recording a window size corresponding to a pixel standard deviation value which is nearest to the right of the maximum pixel standard deviation value on the graph, \n step  108 : generating another graph of window size versus standard deviation with an increased step size, \n step  107 : checking whether the iteration number for querying the step  103  exceeds a predetermined iteration limit,\n if the iteration number exceeds the predetermined iteration limit, then estimating the window size as a window size last recorded; \n if the iteration number does not exceed the predetermined iteration limit, then performing the step  103 , \n \n if the curve of the graph represents a monotonically decreasing trend, then following steps are performed,\n step  105 : checking whether there is a previously recorded window size;\n if there is the previously recorded window size, then step  106  is performed, estimating the object size as the window size last recorded; \n \n if there is no previously recorded window size, then step  109  is performed, estimating the object size as a predetermined initial window size.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82812
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13156586', '12350209', '11123549', '13150384', '12881364']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6074098271088402
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4770537963925941
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5943742240372156
- Mean Citation Score: 127.78329479999998
- Max Citation Score: 140.42902
- Similarity Product: 93.97443937842132

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