PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16188992
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["198", "444000"]

Abstract:
A typing off-loading and article sorting system to automatically separate different parcel types includes an feed conveyor, receiving conveyor, sorting conveyor, cameras and photoelectric eye. The overhead cameras detect the item size and whether it is cubic in nature and type and size of its footprint. An in-line slide sorter having alternating conveyor rollers and pop-up belts pass through to, or divert articles from, a downstream conveyor. The vison based system may also be used to detect space between articles and insert articles in the unoccupied space.

Claim (Index 1):
A typing and off-loading sorting system comprising:\n an off-loading collector feed conveyor having an independent drive motor in flow communication with a transport loaded with parcels; a transition zone selected on said off-loading collector feed conveyor; at least one two spaced apart overhead cameras having a field of view of said transition zone one on each side of said transition zone; at least one single beam photoelectric eye positioned over said feed conveyor below said overhead cameras in the direction of flow of said of said feed conveyor; controller means for varying said off-loading collector feed conveyor speed; a slide sorter conveyor and speed control system, comprising a first central conveyor positioned to carry articles in the direction of a longitudinal axis of said conveyor, a slide sorter pop-up conveyor positioned across said longitudinal axis of said conveyor including means operative to move said pop-up conveyor between a home position in which a pass-through element receives articles from said conveyor and transfers them along the direction of said longitudinal axis, and a diverting position in which a pop-up element receives said articles from said conveyor and transfers selected articles away from the direction of said longitudinal axis, a multiplexed light screen to detect the full length of said articles, a photocell over said conveyor surface to detect a portions of said articles that can be engaged by said pop-up conveyor, and a computer control means for controlling actuation of said pop-up conveyor in response to data transmitted from said multiplexed light screen and said photocell.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.45455
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15588230', '14998406', '15977224', '14998405', '14792663']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7734209503268817
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6078700512806121
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7568658604222548
- Mean Citation Score: 423.68037600000014
- Max Citation Score: 661.82104
- Similarity Product: 526.2630037558889

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