PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15867213
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["356", "338000"]

Abstract:
A system ( 1 ) for detecting microscopic objects located in a flowing fluid. It comprises a lighting system ( 205, 305 ) comprising at least one LED diode ( 605 ) for supplying light to the flowing fluid; an image capture system ( 201, 601 ) configured to capture a sequence of images of the fluid. The image capture system comprises a camera comprising a plurality of pixels. The sequence of images is processed and the presence and shape of microscopic objects is determined. The lighting system ( 205, 305 ) is configured to supply high power light pulses having amplitude Io′ and very short time duration T ON , the time instant at which said pulses are triggered being synchronized with the time instants at which pixels in the image capture system ( 601 ) start to capture an image frame. The amplitude Io′ and time duration T ON  of the light pulses are controlled by calculating, from the light intensity (I frame ) of each captured image frame, a pulse amplitude setpoint (PAS) and a pulse duration setpoint (PDS) for adjusting respective potentiometers ( 651, 652 ) configured to respectively fix the amplitude Io′ and pulse duration T ON  by executing an algorithm that prioritizes amplitude rises over pulse duration rises. The lighting system ( 305 ) comprises an energy loading system ( 670 ) configured to make the amplitude requirement and response time of the lighting system ( 305 ) independent from the power supply unit. Method for detecting microscopic objects suspended in a flowing fluid.

Claim (Index 6):
The system of  claim 1 , wherein said energy loading system comprises a switched-mode power supply configured to provide a voltage and a low current from an external DC power supply source; and an RC network comprising at least one capacitor and a resistor, wherein said at least one capacitor works as a pulse energy storage means and said resistor regulates the charging speed of the pulse energy storage means, said RC network being configured for the at least one capacitor to become fully charged in a time duration T frame \u2212T ON , wherein T frame  is the time period between two consecutive image frames captured by the image capture system, the switched-mode power supply thus providing a voltage in turn enabling to provide said at least one LED with said current Io\u2032.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52252
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15316998', '12893819', '15561965', '13060044', '12172524']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6321790739643434
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4894954339352581
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6179107099614349
- Mean Citation Score: 145.32367400000004
- Max Citation Score: 152.24892
- Similarity Product: 98.28339382304908

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