PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16214862
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["348", "071000"]

Abstract:
A system for improving imaging during a surgical procedure includes an image sensor coupled to a controller. The image sensor is coupled to capture a video, including a first image frame with a smoke occlusion due to surgical smoke, of the surgical procedure. The first image frame includes a plurality of pixels each having an imaged color representing a view of the tissue affected by the smoke occlusion. The controller stores instructions that when executed causes the system to perform operations. The operations include determining an estimated true color of each of the plurality of pixels. The estimated true color is closer to an unoccluded color of the tissue than the imaged color. The operations also include generating, in response to determining the estimated true color, a desmoked first image frame with a reduced amount of the smoke occlusion relative to the first image frame.

Claim (Index 12):
A method for reducing a smoke occlusion in a surgical video, comprising:\n receiving a plurality of image frames corresponding to the surgical video of a surgical procedure, wherein the plurality of image frames includes a first image frame with the smoke occlusion due to surgical smoke, and wherein the first image frame includes a plurality of pixels each having an imaged color representing a view of tissue affected by the smoke occlusion; determining an estimated true color of each of the plurality of pixels in the first image frame based, at least in part, on the imaged color, wherein the estimated true color is closer to an unoccluded color of the tissue than the imaged color; and generating, in response to determining the estimated true color, a desmoked video, including a desmoked first image frame with a reduced amount of the smoke occlusion relative to the first image frame.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14860914', '15856298', '14862437', '15434122', '12124158']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5859548269801528
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4739218409256365
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5747515283747011
- Mean Citation Score: 135.82735119999998
- Max Citation Score: 168.69931
- Similarity Product: 123.3071303408116

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