PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15888229
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["348", "078000"]

Abstract:
A robot system controls a robot in a tele-operation. The system includes a robot and a remote gaze-controlled camera (GCC) system. The robot includes one or more manipulators and a vision system that provides a remote operator a close up view of a work area of the robot from the robot's perspective. The robot and the one or more manipulators are remotely controlled by the hands of the operator. The GCC system remotely controls the vision system of the robot. The GCC system relieves the operator of additional manual control of the video camera and the cognitive workload of manual control of the video camera. The GCC system includes a video display for remotely displaying video from the vision system to the operator, an eyetracker for determining an eye/head activity variable of the operator's eye, and a processor that remotely controls the video camera based on the eye/head activity variable.

Claim (Index 16):
A robot system for controlling a robot through the head or eye motion of a remote operator, comprising:\n a robot that includes a vision system, wherein the vision system includes a video camera and an actuator that is connected to the video camera and controls at least one setting of the video camera; and a gaze-controlled camera system for remotely controlling the vision system of the robot, wherein the gaze-controlled camera system includes a video display that displays remote video from the video camera of the vision system of the robot to an operator of the robot, an eyetracker that images at least one eye of the operator as the operator is observing the video display, measures a change in an image of the at least one eye of the operator over time, and calculates an eye/head activity variable from the measured change in the image, and a processor that is in remote communication with the actuator and the video camera of the vision system of the robot, that translates the eye/head activity variable into a camera control setting of the video camera of the vision system of the robot, and that remotely instructs the actuator of the vision system of the robot to apply the camera control setting to the video camera of the vision system of the robot.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 89.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62903
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12817569', '13857250', '13196602', '14663771', '15493986']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.560095942845252
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5189670100477701
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5559830495655038
- Mean Citation Score: 193.886346
- Max Citation Score: 275.97638
- Similarity Product: 175.84755935370566

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