PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16224397
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["348", "080000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for capturing a digital image of a slide using an imaging line sensor and a focusing line sensor. In an embodiment, a beam-splitter is optically coupled to an objective lens and configured to receive one or more images of a portion of a sample through the objective lens. The beam-splitter simultaneously provides a first portion of the one or more images to the focusing sensor and a second portion of the one or more images to the imaging sensor. A processor controls the stage and/or objective lens such that each portion of the one or more images is received by the focusing sensor prior to it being received by the imaging sensor. In this manner, a focus of the objective lens can be controlled using data received from the focusing sensor prior to capturing an image of a portion of the sample using the imaging sensor.

Claim (Index 18):
A method of capturing a digital image of a slide, the method comprising:\n by an objective lens having a single optical axis, acquiring one or more images of at least a portion of a sample supported on a stage; by at least one beam-splitter optically coupled to the objective lens, simultaneously providing a first portion of the one or more images to at least one focusing line sensor and a second portion of the one or more images to at least one imaging line sensor; and by at least one processor, controlling one or more of the stage and the objective lens such that each portion of the one or more images is received by the at least one focusing line sensor prior to it being received by the at least one imaging line sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47619
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14398443', '15838043', '15763061', '16147448', '14275021']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6542097149276488
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5176806252243862
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6405568059573226
- Mean Citation Score: 284.69882199999995
- Max Citation Score: 339.0684
- Similarity Product: 302.4479887162685

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