PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15772657
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["382", "274000"]

Abstract:
A decamouflaging method includes: obtaining image representing a scene including a multispectral image including components in the spectral domain ranging from the visible domain to the short-wavelength infrared and a thermal image including a component in the medium infrared and/or the long-wavelength infrared; extracting a sub-part (“window”) from each of the images obtained at a given position; applying a contrast accentuation procedure to the window extracted from the multispectral image allowing an improved window to be obtained where contrast between pixels corresponding to the object and pixels not corresponding to the object is accentuated; forming a multicomponent window, the improved window obtained and the window extracted from the thermal image each supplying a component of the multicomponent window; and applying the procedure to the multicomponent window; generating an image by inserting the improved window obtained by applying the procedure to the multicomponent window in a receiving image representing the scene.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for decamouflaging an object in a scene observed by a plurality of devices comprising a device for acquiring images, referred to as multispectral images, comprising a plurality of components, each representing a spectral band lying in a visible and/or near infrared and/or short-wavelength infrared domain, and a device ( 50 ) for acquiring images, referred to as thermal images, comprising at least one component representing a spectral band lying in the medium infrared and/or the long-wavelength infrared, wherein the method comprises:\n obtaining a multispectral image and a thermal image, each component of the multispectral image and each component of the thermal image being harmonised spatially and temporally with each other; obtaining at least one position of a subpart of an image, referred to as a window, and, for each position obtained:\n extracting a window from each of the multispectral and thermal images at said position; \n applying a contrast accentuation procedure to at least one of the extracted windows comprising a window extracted from the multispectral image, said procedure, when it is applied to a window, allowing a window to be obtained, referred to as an improved window, in which a contrast between pixels corresponding to the object and pixels not corresponding to the object is accentuated; \n forming a multicomponent window, each improved window obtained and each extracted window to which said procedure has not been applied providing at least one component of the multicomponent window; and \n applying said procedure to the multicomponent window; \n generating an image, referred to as a restitution image, by inserting each improved window obtained by applying said procedure to each multicomponent window formed in a receiving image representing the scene.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31429
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15745881', '15100212', '14357205', '15027996', '14689745']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.31134818899348
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5172865876943752
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3319420288635695
- Mean Citation Score: 196.71494
- Max Citation Score: 312.97968
- Similarity Product: 222.512013366909

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

Dataset: test