PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15906145
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["345", "422000"]

Abstract:
A non-limiting example game apparatus includes a display device, and a game screen is displayed on the display device. For example, a player character, a non-player character, a background object, etc. are displayed in the game screen. When finishing the drawing of a game image corresponding to the game screen, the smallest value of a Z value is acquired from a Z buffer. If the smallest value is less than a predetermined threshold value, when drawing a game image of a next frame, a target object that is near to a virtual camera is detected, and transparency of the target object that is nearer than a predetermined criterion is made to be increased.

Claim (Index 9):
An imaging processing system, comprising:\n a drawing portion configured to perform drawing processing of an image based on a virtual camera located in a virtual space by using a Z buffer for every predetermined drawing period; a determination portion configured to determine, after the drawing processing, whether there is a portion whose depth value is smaller than a predetermined value in the Z buffer; and a detection portion configured to detect an object that is nearer than a predetermined criterion to the virtual camera in the virtual space when it is determined that there is a portion whose depth value is smaller than the predetermined value in the determination portion at a time of previous drawing processing, wherein the drawing portion is configured to further perform the drawing processing of the virtual space so that the object that is near to the virtual camera detected in the detection portion is displayed while increasing the transparency, or being not displayed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15254
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10262660', '11898004', '12178837', '11882010', '12179081']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6438003631895227
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4807360580400494
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6274939326745754
- Mean Citation Score: 201.690656
- Max Citation Score: 208.85542
- Similarity Product: 159.8366370778918

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