PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16170174
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["235", "455000"]

Abstract:
A method of decoding one or more barcodes on a target object with an imaging scanner is described. The imaging scanner comprises an image sensor and a dynamic linear polarizer. The method includes the following: (1) capturing at least one image of the target object through the dynamic linear polarizer with the imaging sensor while the dynamic linear polarizer is set to a different defined polarization during each of N time periods; and (2) processing at least N images of the target object to decode the one or more barcodes on the target object. At least one image that is captured during each of the N time periods. Here, N is an integer that can be three, four, five, six, or other natural numbers.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of decoding one or more barcodes on a target object with an imaging scanner that comprises an image sensor and a dynamic linear polarizer, with the dynamic linear polarizer being configured to block light with polarization perpendicular to a defined polarization direction, the method comprising:\n capturing at least a first image of the target object through the dynamic linear polarizer with the imaging sensor during a first time period while the dynamic linear polarizer is set to a first defined polarization direction; capturing at least a second image of the target object through the dynamic linear polarizer with the imaging sensor during a second time period while the dynamic linear polarizer is set to a second defined polarization direction; capturing at least a third image of the target object through the dynamic linear polarizer with the imaging sensor during a third time period while the dynamic linear polarizer is set to a third defined polarization direction; processing each of the first image of the target object, the second image of the target object, and the third image of the target object to decode the one or more barcodes on the target object; and wherein the first defined polarization, the second defined polarization, and the third defined polarization are all different from each other.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02899
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14226056', '14064115', '13324197', '14533453', '14259860']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5686948149158157
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4838269557939745
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5602080290036316
- Mean Citation Score: 186.830402
- Max Citation Score: 267.009
- Similarity Product: 216.1205122021437

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

Dataset: test