PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16267362
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["172", "002000"]

Abstract:
A method for weeding crops includes, at an autonomous machine: recording an image at the front of the autonomous machine; detecting a target plant and calculating an opening location for the target plant longitudinally offset and laterally aligned with the location of the first target plant; driving a weeding module to laterally align with the opening location; tracking the opening location relative to a longitudinal reference position of the weeding module; when the weeding module longitudinally aligns with the first opening location, actuating the blades of the first weeding module to an open position; recording an image proximal to the weeding module; and in response to detecting the blades of the weeding module in the open position: calculating an offset between the opening location and a reference position of the weeding module, based on the image; and updating successive opening locations calculated by the autonomous machine based on the offset.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for performing an agricultural operation in an agricultural field comprises, at an autonomous machine autonomously navigating along crop rows in an agricultural field:\n recording a first image of a ground area below a light module arranged proximal a front of the autonomous machine; detecting a location of a first target plant based on the first image; driving a first operating module to laterally align a lateral reference position of the first operating module with the location of the first target plant, the first operating module arranged in a tool housing behind the light module; tracking the location of the first target plant relative to a longitudinal reference position of the first operating module; in response to the longitudinal reference position of the first operating module longitudinally aligning with the location of the first target plant, actuating the first operating module to perform the agricultural operation; recording a second image of a ground area below the tool housing; in response to detecting a fiducial of the first operating module in the second image, the fiducial indicating a performance of the agricultural operation:\n calculating a first longitudinal offset between the location of the first target plant and the longitudinal reference position of the first operating module, based on the second image; and \n calculating a first lateral offset between the location of the first target plant and the lateral reference position of the first operating module, based on the second image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.81034
- Patent Class: 172.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16260042', '15852749', '15693301', '15693336', '15693316']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6692899164478451
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.466947305820368
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6490556553850974
- Mean Citation Score: 110.808884
- Max Citation Score: 120.40467
- Similarity Product: 85.21764945615291

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