PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15859679
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["434", "PCA029"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for lap timing and counting in athletic events are disclosed. The systems and methods do not require the athlete to wear a counter/timer, a transmitter, a reflector or another kind of marker. A portable computing device with a sensor, such as a tablet computer with a camera, is positioned in an appropriate location. Data from the sensor is transformed into a time series of data, and one or more learned statistics are calculated in real time as benchmark ambient conditions. The learned statistics are essentially continuously updated and data that indicates irrelevant volatility is excluded. A detection threshold is determined and essentially continuously updated based on the learned statistics, and lap completion is determined based on the threshold. Times, lap counts, and other data are displayed on the portable device in real time.

Claim (Index 20):
A system, comprising:\n a pair of swim goggles having an informational display and being coupled to a first communication device; a tag adapted to be attached to a swimmer; a computing device adapted to be placed on a wall or the bottom of a swimming pool remote from the tagged swimmer to detect the tagged swimmer, the computing device including\n at least one sensor adapted to perceive energy reflected from or transmitted by the tag, \n a second communication device adapted to communicate with the first communication device of the pair of swim goggles, \n a set of computer-readable instructions on a non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to or associated with the computing device that, when executed on the computing device, cause the computing device to\n define a detection volume using the at least one sensor, \n define, or allow the tagged swimmer to preselect, a lap completion point, line, or plane within the detection volume, \n track the tagged swimmer within the detection volume using output of the at least one sensor based on one or both of (1) a distance to the tagged swimmer calculated and updated in real time based on output of the at least one sensor, or (2) a time series model of conditions measured by the at least one sensor, the set of computer-readable instructions causing the computing device to determine and substantially continuously update the time series model in real time, \n establish that the tagged swimmer has passed the lap completion point, line, or plane based on one or both of the distance or the time series model, \n calculate at least a lap count and a lap time when the tagged swimmer has passed the lap completion point, line, or plane, and \n transmit the lap count and the lap time to the first communication device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84146
- Patent Class: 434.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14937474', '14705542', '12791823', '12642830', '13833755']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3456162960503347
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5208169593388569
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3631363623791869
- Mean Citation Score: 275.20921400000003
- Max Citation Score: 362.81754
- Similarity Product: 249.24534771211984

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