PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16101323
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["463", "002000"]

Abstract:
A sports simulator calculates spin of a sports object using image analysis. A velocity vector is also calculated. These are combined to produce a predicted future trajectory of the sports object. In one embodiment, the sports object is a golf ball and the sports simulator simulates golf.

Claim (Index 9):
An apparatus for simulating a sports activity where a future trajectory of a sports object is predicted, the apparatus comprising:\n a camera comprising a shutter; at least one strobe light; a strobe controller coupled to the at least one strobe light; a triggering device coupled to the strobe controller and the camera, the triggering device configured to, in response to detecting a striking of the sports object:\n cause the shutter to open, and \n cause the strobe controller to flash the at least one strobe light such that the sports object is illuminated multiple times while the shutter is open, thereby allowing the camera to capture multiple images of the illuminated sports object on a single image frame before the shutter is closed; \n processing circuitry configured to:\n utilize at least two of the multiple images of the illuminated sports object from the single image frame to compute a spin of the sports object, and \n predict the future trajectory of the sports object based at least in part on the computed spin; and \n a screen configured to display the predicted future trajectory of the sports object.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.52941
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12688659', '14586620', '11837289', '14306081', '14855292']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3871270114853023
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5038882087143363
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3988031312082057
- Mean Citation Score: 341.847772
- Max Citation Score: 345.56808
- Similarity Product: 299.86783049051286

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