PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16362011
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["382", "131000"]

Abstract:
A medical imaging apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe to transmit and receive an ultrasound signal to obtain an ultrasound image of an object; a sensor coupled to the ultrasound probe to provide a position information related to an ultrasound imaging position in the object; and a processor to extract a certain anatomical feature from the ultrasound image and the certain anatomical feature from a medical image, perform a first registration between the medical image and the ultrasound image by matching the certain anatomical feature in the ultrasound image the certain anatomical feature in the medical image, perform a second registration between the sensor and the medical image based on the position information and the first registration, and control a display to display a portion of the medical image corresponding to the ultrasound imaging position based on at least one of the first registration and the second registration.

Claim (Index 1):
A medical imaging apparatus comprising:\n an ultrasound probe configured to transmit and receive an ultrasound signal to obtain an ultrasound image of an object; a sensor coupled to the ultrasound probe to provide a position information related to an ultrasound imaging position in the object; and a processor to extract a certain anatomical feature from the ultrasound image and the certain anatomical feature from a medical image, perform a first registration between the medical image and the ultrasound image based on the certain anatomical feature, perform a second registration between the sensor and the medical image based on the position information and the first registration, and control a display to display a portion of the ultrasound image corresponding to the ultrasound imaging position and a portion of the medical image corresponding to the ultrasound imaging position based on at least one of the first registration and the second registration, wherein the processor performs the first registration by matching the certain anatomical feature in the ultrasound image the certain anatomical feature in the medical image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96154
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15943061', '14861083', '15386143', '14861028', '15276027']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4223170618431829
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5489067569410013
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4349760313529648
- Mean Citation Score: 402.72016
- Max Citation Score: 406.05313
- Similarity Product: 399.75458328894496

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

Dataset: test