PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15773691
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["250", "370090"]

Abstract:
A method for forming an optimized image of a subject includes steps of acquiring a plurality of one-dimensional images, generating a measured sinogram from the plurality of one-dimensional images, and determining a plurality of trial images. In the step of acquiring, the method acquires a plurality of one-dimensional images of the subject captured by a rotating-slit imager having (a) a detector, and (b) a slit collimator having a slit oriented at one of a respective plurality of slit-rotation angles, relative to the subject, about a longitudinal axis substantially perpendicular to a front surface of the detector. In the step of determining, the method iteratively determines a plurality of trial images each having a respective trial sinogram. The optimized image is one of the plurality of trial images and its corresponding trial sinogram differs from the measured sinogram by less than a predetermined tolerance.

Claim (Index 9):
A rotating-slit gamma-ray imager comprising:\n a detector having an array of pixels; a slit collimator having a slit at least partially aligned with the detector and configured to be oriented at any of a plurality of slit-rotation angles in a plane substantially parallel to the array of pixels; a memory storing non-transitory computer-readable instructions; a microprocessor adapted to execute the instructions to form an optimized image of a subject by:\n (i) acquiring, for each of the plurality of slit-rotation angles of the slit, a respective one of a plurality of one-dimensional images of the subject captured by the detector, \n (ii) generating a measured sinogram from the plurality of one-dimensional images, and \n (iii) iteratively determining a plurality of trial images each having a respective trial sinogram, the optimized image being one of the trial images, its corresponding trial sinogram differing from the measured sinogram by less than a predetermined tolerance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35821
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11391599', '11714970', '11771297', '15325497', '11639786']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6669084549885159
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4889068081561608
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6491082903052804
- Mean Citation Score: 198.30155
- Max Citation Score: 207.08159
- Similarity Product: 152.12180431249382

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

Dataset: test