PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16137932
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["382", "103000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, an article recognition apparatus includes an image interface, a weight interface and a processor. The image interface acquires an image captured by photographing a predetermined place where a plurality of articles are disposed. The processor acquires a first image, acquires a second image after detecting a predetermined event, recognizes an article, based on an image of an article area of an article which is absent in the second image, among article areas extracted from the first image, acquires a registered weight of the recognized article from an article database, and outputs an error if total of the registered weights disagrees with a difference weight between a first weight which a weight scale measures at a time of photographing the first image, and a second weight which the weight scale measures at a time of photographing the second image.

Claim (Index 9):
A settlement method of commodities, comprising:\n acquiring a first image captured by photographing a predetermined place where a plurality of commodities are disposed; acquiring a second image captured by photographing the predetermined place after detecting a predetermined event; recognizing which one or more commodities out of the plurality of commodities have been taken out based on the first and the second image; recognizing the commodities that have been taken out; acquiring registered weights of the recognized one or more commodities from a commodity database; outputting an error if the total of the registered weights disagrees with a difference between a first weight which a weight scale measures at a time of photographing the first image, and a second weight which the weight scale measures at a time of photographing the second image, the weight scale being configured to measure a weight on the predetermined place; acquiring a price corresponding to the recognized one or more commodities; and completing settlement of the commodities based on the acquired price when the weight scale does not detect any commodity.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40625
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15425343', '14737800', '14581497', '15434387', '12343730']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3110791059174352
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5168740260023588
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3316585979259276
- Mean Citation Score: 194.384702
- Max Citation Score: 305.96042
- Similarity Product: 218.16568168350105

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

Dataset: test