PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16246235
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["348", "117000"]

Abstract:
An automated image capturing and processing system and method may allow a field user to operate a UAV via a mobile computing device to capture images of a structure area of interest (AOI). The mobile computing device receives user and/or third party data and creates UAV control data and a flight plan. The mobile computing device executes a flight plan by issuing commands to the UAV's flight and camera controller that allows for complete coverage of the structure AOI. After data acquisition, the mobile computing device then transmits the UAV output data to a server for further processing. At the server, the UAV output data can be used for a three-dimensional reconstruction process. The server then generates a vector model from the images that precisely represents the dimensions of the structure. The server can then generate a report for inspection and construction estimation.

Claim (Index 1):
An image and information capturing and processing system, comprising:\n a mobile computing device configured to: receive user input data and/or third party data at the mobile computing device; create unmanned aerial vehicle control data based at least in part on the user input data and/or the third party data; create a flight plan based at least in part on the unmanned aerial vehicle control data comprising a generally crude outline of the structure area of interest, wherein the flight plan insures image data are captured at orientations and intervals allowing for complete three-dimensional reconstruction and visual inspection of a structure area of interest; transmit the flight plan to an unmanned aerial vehicle via a communication link; execute the flight plan at least in part by issuing commands to flight and camera controllers of the unmanned aerial vehicle, wherein one or more acquisition trajectories with varying range and camera orientation allow image coverage of the vertical and horizontal surfaces of the structure area of interest; and receive unmanned aerial vehicle output data from the unmanned aerial vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9375
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15411182', '15338700', '15644144', '15415040', '13054882']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6042400641259419
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5826950985049206
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6020855675638398
- Mean Citation Score: 263.120292
- Max Citation Score: 471.28845
- Similarity Product: 447.003347773254

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