PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16257512
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["348", "148000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments include a method for autonomous camera pod tracking of a vehicle during vehicle alignment. The method can include receiving, at a processor of an autonomous camera pod, at least one of vehicle target image data from a vehicle target camera or calibration target image data from a calibration camera, the vehicle target camera being adapted to acquire images of a target mounted to the vehicle, and the calibration camera being adapted to acquire images of a calibration target mounted to a sister autonomous camera pod. An optimal location of the autonomous camera pod can be calculated based on the received vehicle target image data or calibration target image data. The method can include transmitting, when it is determined to move the autonomous camera pod, a motor command to a motor drive of the autonomous camera pod, thereby causing the autonomous camera pod to move to the optimal location.

Claim (Index 1):
A vehicle alignment system adapted to track a vehicle, the system comprising:\n a first camera pod mounted to move relative to the vehicle, the first camera pod comprising:\n a first motor drive adapted to move the first camera pod relative to the vehicle, \n a first camera adapted to capture image data of a first target mounted to the vehicle, the first camera generating first image data, and \n a calibration target disposed in a fixed relationship to the first camera, \n a second camera pod mounted to move relative to the vehicle, the second camera pod comprising:\n a second motor drive adapted to move the second camera pod relative to the vehicle, \n a second camera adapted to capture image data of a second target mounted to the vehicle, the second camera generating second image data, and \n a calibration camera disposed in a fixed relationship to the second camera adapted to capture image data of the calibration target, the calibration camera generating calibration image data, \n one or more data processors adapted to:\n receive the first image data from the first camera, \n determine, based at least in part on the first image data, whether to cause the first camera pod to move relative to the vehicle, \n transmit, when the one or more data processors determine to cause the first camera pod to move relative to the vehicle, a first motor command to the first motor drive thereby causing the first camera pod to move relative to the vehicle, \n receive the calibration image data from the calibration camera, \n determine, based at least in part on the calibration image data, whether to cause the second camera pod to move relative to the vehicle, and \n transmit, when the one or more data processors determine to cause the second camera pod to move relative to the vehicle, a second motor command to the second motor drive, thereby causing the second camera pod to move relative to the vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80702
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14463599', '14463604', '15287499', '11882451', '15678825']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5936069729192356
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5510990990500295
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5893561855323151
- Mean Citation Score: 270.46076600000004
- Max Citation Score: 404.72452
- Similarity Product: 335.51662553609845

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

Dataset: test