PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15888229
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["348", "078000"]

Abstract:
A robot system controls a robot in a tele-operation. The system includes a robot and a remote gaze-controlled camera (GCC) system. The robot includes one or more manipulators and a vision system that provides a remote operator a close up view of a work area of the robot from the robot's perspective. The robot and the one or more manipulators are remotely controlled by the hands of the operator. The GCC system remotely controls the vision system of the robot. The GCC system relieves the operator of additional manual control of the video camera and the cognitive workload of manual control of the video camera. The GCC system includes a video display for remotely displaying video from the vision system to the operator, an eyetracker for determining an eye/head activity variable of the operator's eye, and a processor that remotely controls the video camera based on the eye/head activity variable.

Claim (Index 33):
A method for controlling a robot through the head or eye motion of a remote operator comprising:\n displaying remote video from a video camera of a vision system of a robot to an operator of the robot using a video display of a gaze-controlled camera system for remotely controlling the vision system of the robot, wherein the vision system includes the video camera and an actuator that is connected to the video camera and controls at least one setting of the video camera and wherein the gaze-controlled camera system includes the video display, an eyetracker, and a processor; imaging at least one eye of the operator as the operator is observing the video display and measuring a change in an image of the at least one eye of the operator over time using the eyetracker; calculating an eye/head activity variable from the measured change in the image using the eyetracker, translating the eye/head activity variable into a camera control setting of the video camera of the vision system of the robot using the processor; and remotely instructing the actuator of the vision system of the robot to apply the camera control setting to the video camera of the vision system of the robot using the processor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 89.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62903
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12817569', '13857250', '13196602', '14663771', '15493986']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5599709992745497
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5196238822301703
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5559362875701118
- Mean Citation Score: 193.886346
- Max Citation Score: 275.97638
- Similarity Product: 173.41160608320718

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

Dataset: test