PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16034039
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["198", "502100"]

Abstract:
An abnormality detection device for a container stack determines stacking abnormality in a container stack on a conveyance path. A plurality of containers, each including a code display surface having container information recorded at a fixed position on a lateral outer surface thereof, are stacked with the code display surfaces positioned on the same side, thereby forming a container stack. A code reader that captures an image of the code display surface is arranged on a lateral side of the conveyance path, said conveyance path conveying the container stack with the code display surfaces oriented parallel to the conveyance direction. Read data from the code reader is input into a calculation processor that detects the position coordinate value of at least one fixed point on each of the code display surfaces and determines stacking abnormality in the container stack.

Claim (Index 1):
An abnormality detection device for a container stack, comprising:\n the abnormality detection device being operable to determine a stacking abnormality in the container stack on a lateral side of a conveyance path; the container stack including a plurality of containers, each container having a code display surface recording container information, the code display surface being provided in a fixed position on a lateral outer surface of the stackable container, and the plurality of containers are stacked such that the code display surfaces are positioned on a same side, and where the container stack is conveyed with the code display surfaces oriented parallel to a conveyance direction; a code reading means operable to captures images of the code display surfaces on the respective containers in the container stack is arranged on the lateral side of the conveyance path; a calculation processing means operable to read data input from the code reading means; the calculation processing means being operable to detect, from the read data of each of the code display surfaces, a position coordinate value of at least one fixed point in each of the code display surfaces; and the calculation processing means being operable to determine the stacking abnormality in the container stack from the position coordinate value of each of the containers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07042
- Patent Class: 198.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15615159', '15355244', '15355281', '13909782', '14735881']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7060483178377086
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4582799728404709
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6812714833379848
- Mean Citation Score: 158.76582000000005
- Max Citation Score: 170.96403999999995
- Similarity Product: 119.52340902421948

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

Dataset: test