PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15901656
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["209", "583000"]

Abstract:
A drop perception system is disclosed that includes an open housing structure having an internal volume, an open top and an open bottom, and a plurality of perception units positioned to capture perception data within the internal volume at a plurality of locations between the open top and the open bottom of the open housing.

Claim (Index 36):
A method of processing objects, said method comprising the steps of:\n dropping an object into a perception system; illuminating a first portion of a path that the object takes as it falls through the perception system using a first plurality of illumination sources associated with a first perception unit; reflecting illumination from the first plurality of illumination sources off of the object; capturing first perception data associated with the reflected illumination from the first plurality of illumination sources using the first perception unit; illuminating a second portion of the path using a second plurality of illumination sources associated with a second perception unit; reflecting illumination from the second plurality of illumination sources off of the object; capturing second perception data associated with the reflected illumination from the second plurality of illumination sources using the second perception unit; illuminating a third portion of the path using a third plurality of illumination sources associated with a third perception unit; reflecting illumination from the third plurality of illumination sources off of the object; capturing third perception data associated with the reflected illumination from the third plurality of illumination sources using the third perception unit; and identifying unique indicia on the object responsive to the captured first, second and third perception data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75758
- Patent Class: 209.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15228692', '15260837', '15348498', '15824009', '15835764']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6713484718539908
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5322270838279766
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6574363330513894
- Mean Citation Score: 277.211842
- Max Citation Score: 376.9929
- Similarity Product: 286.82739015290736

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