PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005051
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["324", "240000"]

Abstract:
Methods and devices are provided for providing a graphic overlay for measuring dimensions of features using a video inspection device. One or more measurement cursors are placed on pixels of an image of the object. One or more planes are determined parallel or normal to a reference surface or line and passing through surface points associated with the measurement cursors. A semi-transparent graphic overlay is placed on pixels with associated surface points having three-dimensional surface coordinates less than a predetermined distance from the plane(s) to help the user place the measurement cursors.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for measuring a feature, the method comprising the steps of:\n displaying on a monitor an image of a viewed object; determining three-dimensional coordinates of a plurality of points on a surface of the viewed object using a central processor unit; placing a first measurement cursor and a second measurement cursor on the image using a pointing device; determining a first measurement point corresponding to the location of the first measurement cursor using the central processor unit; determining a second measurement point corresponding to the location of the second measurement cursor using the central processor unit; determining a three-dimensional line between the first measurement point and the second measurement point using the central processor unit; determining a first edge plane using the central processor unit, wherein the first edge plane is normal to the three-dimensional line and passes through the first measurement point; determining a distance between the plurality of points on a surface of the viewed object and the first edge plane using a central processor unit; comparing the distance between the plurality of points on a surface of the viewed object and the first edge plane to a predetermined distance threshold using the central processor unit; and displaying a first edge plane graphical overlay on pixels in the image associated with the plurality of points on a surface of the viewed object having a distance to the first edge plane that is below the predetermined distance threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.59677
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15648010', '15018628', '15958215', '15018556', '15810584']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5849413593867087
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5860030612593904
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5850475295739769
- Mean Citation Score: 378.254582
- Max Citation Score: 484.0018
- Similarity Product: 475.60456198742384

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

Dataset: test