PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15918595
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["348", "157000"]

Abstract:
A method and system for determining whether a spherical element impacts with a component of a playing field, or arranged on or proximate thereto. The method includes acquiring images of a surveillance area of a field that covers at least part of said component, such as a delimiting perimeter line of a game area or a target, performing an approximate detection of an impact of a spherical element relative to that component or proximate thereto, with an object detection and recognition system that can discern when the detected object is indeed a spherical element, automatically selecting one of the images acquired for the same point in time and that includes the area where said impact has occurred, and analysing the selected image to check if the spherical element has impacted or not with the component.

Claim (Index 7):
The method according to  claim 1 , comprising judging whether a spherical element bounces inside or outside said game areas, where the game areas are delimited by perimeter lines, where:\n said step a) comprises acquiring a sequence of images of at least one area of surveillance of said playing field covering at least part of at least one of said perimeter lines (L); said step b) comprises performing an approximate detection of a bounce of a spherical element on one of said perimeter lines, or proximate thereto, said perimeter line constituting the aforementioned component of the playing field, and said bounce constituting said impact; said step c) comprises automatically selecting, in response to said approximate detection, at least one image, from said sequence of images, acquired for the same point in time and that includes the area where said bounce took place; and said step d) comprises analyzing, upon request of a player or umpire or automatically upon selection of the step c), the at least one selected image, to check if when the spherical element has really bounced or not on said perimeter line, in order to judge if when the spherical element has bounced inside or outside the game area delimited by said perimeter line of step b).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88158
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14785046', '10099532', '13521984', '15370993', '12281202']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5715365835898935
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5570543070833262
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5700883559392367
- Mean Citation Score: 243.428498
- Max Citation Score: 409.44705
- Similarity Product: 390.1595283408881

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

Dataset: test