PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16185354
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["382", "110000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to an animal recognition apparatus including an image recognition unit to generate, enroll, verify, and identify the raw or processed nose pattern code from the acquired nose pattern image, and to an animal recognition method including a nose pattern image acquisition step and nose code generation, enrollment, and matching steps.

Claim (Index 38):
The animal recognition apparatus according to  claim 36 , wherein the shift matching method comprises:\n generating the nose pattern codes from all possible local regions in the ROI; computing the distances between the nose pattern codes for each pair of local regions; and performing verification using a minimum value of distance from all possible pairs of the local regions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.69444
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14893043', '16185324', '12402761', '13666168', '13452126']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3656379140774806
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5687539679995097
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3859495194696835
- Mean Citation Score: 277.81579600000003
- Max Citation Score: 472.62018
- Similarity Product: 372.5809006153572

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

Dataset: test