PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16185640
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["382", "100000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates generally to digital watermarking and signal encoding. Various colors can be evaluated and modified to carry an encoded or auxiliary signal.

Claim (Index 10):
An apparatus comprising:\n an input to receive data representing pixels associated with a digital image; means for analyzing, for each of a set of pixels from the digital image, candidate pixel changes to help carry an encoded signal, the pixel changes corresponding to +/\u2212n increments of an ink percentage for a first color ink, wherein n is an integer, said analyzing considers a perceptual error per pixel associated with each pixel change; means for determining which of the pixel changes fall within an allowable visibility threshold, said determining identifying a subset of pixel changes; means for reducing the number of pixel changes within the subset of pixel changes according to minimum and maximum percent (%) dot press limits, said reducing yielding remaining pixel changes; means for weighting the remaining pixel changes according to color weights to yield weighted pixel changes; and means for evaluating at least one of the weighted pixel changes relative to printing press constraints to identify a weighted pixel change associated with a pixel, the weighted pixel change used to alter the digital image to help carry the encoded signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.17391
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15650497', '15266127', '13975919', '15798046', '15426630']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3894970495282571
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.610978260242118
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4116451705996433
- Mean Citation Score: 420.723874
- Max Citation Score: 537.9446
- Similarity Product: 516.2731858483317

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

Dataset: test