PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16214862
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["348", "071000"]

Abstract:
A system for improving imaging during a surgical procedure includes an image sensor coupled to a controller. The image sensor is coupled to capture a video, including a first image frame with a smoke occlusion due to surgical smoke, of the surgical procedure. The first image frame includes a plurality of pixels each having an imaged color representing a view of the tissue affected by the smoke occlusion. The controller stores instructions that when executed causes the system to perform operations. The operations include determining an estimated true color of each of the plurality of pixels. The estimated true color is closer to an unoccluded color of the tissue than the imaged color. The operations also include generating, in response to determining the estimated true color, a desmoked first image frame with a reduced amount of the smoke occlusion relative to the first image frame.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of  claim 12 , wherein determining the estimated true color of each of the plurality of pixels includes:\n determining a conditional probability distribution of transmittance values of the smoke occlusion for each of the plurality of pixels based, at least in part, on the imaged color, a first probability distribution of potential true colors of the tissue, and a second probability distribution of potential transmittance values of the smoke occlusion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14860914', '15856298', '14862437', '15434122', '12124158']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.615669664762729
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4714072092960557
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6012434192160616
- Mean Citation Score: 135.82735119999998
- Max Citation Score: 168.69931
- Similarity Product: 128.45760670532107

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