PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909437
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["382", "275000"]

Abstract:
Techniques are described for dynamically correcting image distortion during imaging of a patterned sample having repeating spots. Different sets of image distortion correction coefficients may be calculated for different regions of a sample during a first imaging cycle of a multicycle imaging run and subsequently applied in real time to image data generated during subsequent cycles. In one implementation, image distortion correction coefficients may be calculated for an image of a patterned sample having repeated spots by: estimating an affine transform of the image; sharpening the image; and iteratively searching for an optimal set of distortion correction coefficients for the sharpened image, where iteratively searching for the optimal set of distortion correction coefficients for the sharpened image includes calculating a mean chastity for spot locations in the image, and where the estimated affine transform is applied during each iteration of the search.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n performing a first imaging cycle of a patterned sample comprising a plurality of spots; dividing a first set of imaging data generated during the first imaging cycle into a first plurality of imaging data subsets, each of the first plurality of imaging data subsets corresponding to a respective region of the patterned sample, each of the respective regions of the patterned sample comprising a plurality of spots; calculating a set of image distortion correction coefficients for each of the first plurality of imaging data subsets; performing a second imaging cycle of the patterned sample to generate a second set of imaging data; and dividing the second set of imaging data generated during the second imaging cycle into a second plurality of imaging data subsets, each of the second plurality of imaging data subsets corresponding to the same respective region of the patterned sample as one of the first plurality of imaging data subsets; and for each of the second plurality of imaging data subsets, applying the distortion correction coefficients calculated for the one of the first plurality of imaging data subsets corresponding to the same respective region of the patterned sample.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06849
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10210959', '15354540', '10687308', '15077704', '11222562']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3185571317282045
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4715326838264528
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3338546869380293
- Mean Citation Score: 166.969882
- Max Citation Score: 183.50926
- Similarity Product: 142.26316162971736

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