PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16048755
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["367", "093000"]

Abstract:
Sonar devices for detecting underwater objects are provided whereby a set of angled ultrasound transducers are employed to sense ultrasound signals from a plurality of different spatial regions. The angled ultrasound transducers may include a first pair of side-viewing ultrasound transducers and a second pair of ultrasound transducers configured for interrogating forward and reverse directions. The ultrasound signals from the set of angled ultrasound transducers may be processed to identify the presence of underwater objects in each spatial region, and the resulting identified underwater objects may be displayed, on a per-region basis, on a user interface. The ultrasound signals may additionally or alternatively be processed to generate a topographical model of the bed surface, and to generate a topographical surface image based on the three-dimensional topographical model. The topographical surface image may be displayed as a fly-over animation.

Claim (Index 42):
A sonar device, the sonar device comprising:\n a housing configured to float on a surface of a body of water, wherein the housing defines a primary axis; a power source positioned within the housing; an array of transducers positioned within the housing; a wireless communication element configured to transmit one or more signals to and receive one or more signals from a remote computing device; and processing circuitry provided within the housing, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to:\n receive one or more sonar return signals from the array of transducers; \n process the one or more sonar return signals to generate sonar return data corresponding to a plurality of regions, wherein the plurality of regions each corresponds to different volumes of the body of water with respect to the primary axis of the housing; \n generate a plurality of sonar images, wherein each of the plurality of sonar images corresponds to each of the plurality of regions, wherein the sonar image for each of the plurality of regions is formed from sonar return data for the corresponding one of the plurality of regions; and \n transmit, via the wireless communication element, the plurality of sonar images to the remote computing device for presentation on a display of the remote computing device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13043
- Patent Class: 367.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15189650', '13827571', '15401947', '13827329', '14689764']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.587655969420239
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5239090866272595
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5812812811409411
- Mean Citation Score: 215.31746200000003
- Max Citation Score: 360.75238
- Similarity Product: 293.35615791633734

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

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