PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16137932
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["382", "103000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, an article recognition apparatus includes an image interface, a weight interface and a processor. The image interface acquires an image captured by photographing a predetermined place where a plurality of articles are disposed. The processor acquires a first image, acquires a second image after detecting a predetermined event, recognizes an article, based on an image of an article area of an article which is absent in the second image, among article areas extracted from the first image, acquires a registered weight of the recognized article from an article database, and outputs an error if total of the registered weights disagrees with a difference weight between a first weight which a weight scale measures at a time of photographing the first image, and a second weight which the weight scale measures at a time of photographing the second image.

Claim (Index 1):
A settlement apparatus for commodities, comprising:\n an image interface configured to acquire an image captured by photographing a predetermined place where a plurality of commodities are disposed; a weight interface configured to acquire a weight of the commodities measured by a weight scale, the weight scale being configured to measure the weight of the commodities disposed at the predetermined place; and a processor configured to:\n acquire a first image through the image interface; \n acquire a second image through the image interface after detecting a predetermined event; \n recognize which one or more commodities out of the plurality of commodities have been taken out based on the first and the second image; \n recognize the commodities that have been taken out; \n acquire registered weights of the recognized one or more commodities from a commodity database; \n output an error if a total of the registered weights disagrees with a difference between a first weight which the weight scale measures at a time of photographing the first image, and a second weight which the weight scale measures at a time of photographing the second image; \n acquire a price corresponding to the recognized one or more commodities; and \n complete settlement of the commodities based on the acquired price when the weight scale does not detect any commodity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40625
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15425343', '14737800', '14581497', '15434387', '12343730']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3113321183550009
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5146542156269829
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3316643280821991
- Mean Citation Score: 194.384702
- Max Citation Score: 305.96042
- Similarity Product: 231.43411172689915

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test