PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16362011
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["382", "131000"]

Abstract:
A medical imaging apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe to transmit and receive an ultrasound signal to obtain an ultrasound image of an object; a sensor coupled to the ultrasound probe to provide a position information related to an ultrasound imaging position in the object; and a processor to extract a certain anatomical feature from the ultrasound image and the certain anatomical feature from a medical image, perform a first registration between the medical image and the ultrasound image by matching the certain anatomical feature in the ultrasound image the certain anatomical feature in the medical image, perform a second registration between the sensor and the medical image based on the position information and the first registration, and control a display to display a portion of the medical image corresponding to the ultrasound imaging position based on at least one of the first registration and the second registration.

Claim (Index 12):
The medical imaging apparatus of  claim 10 , wherein the certain anatomical feature is included in a vessel, and\n the processor is further configured to extract the vessel from the medical image of the object, extract a portion of a corresponding vessel from the ultrasound image of the object, and perform the first registration between the medical image and the ultrasound image by matching one or more points of the vessel extracted from the medical image with one or more points of the portion of the corresponding vessel extracted from the ultrasound image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96154
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15943061', '14861083', '15386143', '14861028', '15276027']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4513501021200689
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5514775729759062
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4613628492056527
- Mean Citation Score: 402.72016
- Max Citation Score: 406.05313
- Similarity Product: 404.3327812524169

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

Dataset: test