PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976299
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "164000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates generally to edge detection and presentation in thermal images. Infrared and visible light images comprising at least partially overlapping target scenes are analyzed. An edge detection process is performed on the visible light image to determine which pixels represent edges in the target scene. A display image is generated in which some pixels include infrared image data and in which pixels corresponding to edges in the visible light image include a predetermined color and do not include corresponding infrared image data to emphasize edges. Edge pixels in the display image can include exclusively the predetermined color, or in some examples, a blend of a predetermined color and visible light image data. Methods can include replacing one or the other of visible light edge pixels or corresponding infrared pixels with the predetermined color before combining the visible light and infrared image data to create a display image.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of enhancing infrared images comprising:\n receiving visible light (VL) image data associated with a plurality of VL pixels representative of a target scene; receiving infrared (IR) image data associated with a plurality of IR pixels representative of at least a portion of the target scene, and at least a portion of the IR pixels corresponding to one or more VL pixels; detecting edge pixels in the VL image data representative of edges in the VL image data; and generating display image data associated with a plurality of display pixels, wherein at least one display pixel includes IR image data from at least one corresponding IR pixel, and display pixels corresponding to edge pixels in the VL image include a predetermined color and do not include corresponding IR image data in order to emphasize the location of edges in the display image data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30882
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14222153', '14837757', '13216539', '12543252', '14692279']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6876719838351427
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5563571150005681
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6745404969516853
- Mean Citation Score: 283.275232
- Max Citation Score: 368.43573
- Similarity Product: 327.7641728849923

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

Dataset: test