PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15984224
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["358", "001900"]

Abstract:
The present application relates to a method performed at an electronic device for parsing tables in a PDF document. The method includes the following steps: receiving the PDF document containing a table area; extracting horizontal lines, vertical lines and text blocks in the table area; determining the types of tables in the table area according to the extracted horizontal lines and vertical lines; if the table is a quasi full-line table, determining the structure of the quasi full-line table in the table area according to the horizontal lines and the vertical lines in the table area with the assistance of the text blocks in the table area; and if the table is a quasi non-line table, determining the structure of the quasi non-line table in the table area according to the text blocks in the table area with the assistance of the horizontal lines and/or the vertical lines in the table area.

Claim (Index 9):
The method according to  claim 8 , wherein the step of determining the number of columns of the merged text blocks in the text row comprises:\n if one text block covers N text blocks, the N text blocks have no projection overlap area on the horizontal direction and mutually satisfy a certain distance, the number of columns of the merged text block is N\u2032; and/or, if one text block covers N\u2032 text blocks, there is projection overlap area among the N\u2032 text blocks on the horizontal direction and the projection overlap area exists between every two text blocks, the number of columns of the merged text block is 1; and if one text block is spaced with N\u2033 text blocks by lines, and the N\u2033 text blocks have no projection overlap area on the horizontal direction and mutually satisfy a certain distance, the number of columns of the merged text block is N.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.17647
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13871862', '12414365', '14778155', '15175712', '15136674']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5210393996663374
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4937280727642063
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5183082669761243
- Mean Citation Score: 179.56158
- Max Citation Score: 200.38649
- Similarity Product: 138.22422876866165

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