PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969582
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "222100"]

Abstract:
An apparatus comprises an image capturing device, a light emitting device for illuminating an object to be captured by the image capturing device, a visual guide to guide a user to aim the apparatus at a target authentication device, and a processor. The visual guide is devised such that when the apparatus is aimed at the target authentication device following guidance of the visual guide, the brightness levels on an image of the target authentication device captured by the image capturing device while under illumination of the light emitting device are within a predetermined range of brightness levels to facilitate verification of authenticity with reference to the captured image of the target authentication device.

Claim (Index 1):
An authentication apparatus for capturing an image of a target authentication device for verification of authenticity,\n wherein the target authentication device comprises a data bearing image pattern which is characterized by a plurality of pattern defining elements, wherein the pattern defining elements are digitally coded and spatially distributed according to a spatial distribution scheme to embed one data or a set of data comprising a plurality of data as a security feature, and wherein the spatial distribution pattern and the security feature are correlated by a coding scheme; wherein the apparatus comprises an image capturing device for capturing an image of a target authentication device when the target authentication device is on a capture surface which is at a capture distance from the authentication apparatus, a light emitting device for projecting supplemental illumination along an axis of light projection and towards the target authentication device during image capture operations when supplemental illumination is required or activated, a display device including a display screen having a display surface, a visual guide on the display surface, and a processor; wherein the supplemental illumination on the capture surface is uneven or non-uniform such that the capture surface and/or a target authentication device thereon is subject to uneven illumination levels, wherein a target authentication device placed at different locations of the capture surface would result in captured images having different data signal strengths, and wherein the different data signal strengths including acceptable signal strengths and unacceptable data signal strengths, the unacceptable data signal strengths being comparable to signal strengths of a counterfeit authentication device, and wherein the visual guide is devised such that when an image of the target authentication device appearing on the display surface occupies a fraction of the display surface and is aligned with the visual guide under the supplemental illumination, an image of the target authentication device captured by the image capturing device would meet quantity and quality requirements for authentication.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22222
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14404574', '15890254', '14716591', '15688100', '15272532']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6136027469011761
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.468844967570927
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5991269689681512
- Mean Citation Score: 180.330418
- Max Citation Score: 193.4648
- Similarity Product: 157.62271590232848

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