PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16101323
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["463", "002000"]

Abstract:
A sports simulator calculates spin of a sports object using image analysis. A velocity vector is also calculated. These are combined to produce a predicted future trajectory of the sports object. In one embodiment, the sports object is a golf ball and the sports simulator simulates golf.

Claim (Index 21):
An apparatus for simulating a sports activity where a future trajectory of a sports object is predicted, the apparatus comprising:\n a camera; a strobe controller coupled to at least one strobe light; a triggering device coupled to the strobe controller and the camera, the triggering device configured to, in response to detecting a striking of the sports object:\n cause the camera to capture multiple images of the sports object on a single image frame while the strobe controller flashes the at least one strobe light multiple times to illuminate the sports object during capture of each of the multiple images; \n processing circuitry configured to:\n utilize at least two of the multiple images of the illuminated sports object from the single image frame to compute a spin of the sports object, and \n predict the future trajectory of the sports object based at least in part on the computed spin; and \n a screen configured to display the predicted future trajectory of the sports object.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.52941
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12688659', '14586620', '11837289', '14306081', '14855292']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3869469563673934
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5026681721326587
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3985190779439199
- Mean Citation Score: 341.847772
- Max Citation Score: 345.56808
- Similarity Product: 320.46805320462227

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