PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16040325
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["348", "043000"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for supporting the capture of images of surfaces of an environment visible from a default viewing position and capturing images of surfaces not visible from the default viewing position, e.g., occluded surfaces, are described. Occluded and non-occluded image portions are packed into one or more frames and communicated to a playback device for use as textures which can be applied to a model of the environment where the images were captured. An environmental model includes a model of surfaces which are occluded from view from a default viewing position but which maybe viewed is the user shifts the user's viewing location. Occluded image content can be incorporated directly into a frame that also includes non-occluded image data or sent in frames of a separate, e.g., auxiliary content stream that is multiplexed with the main content stream which communicates image data corresponding to non-occluded environmental portions.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of operating an image processing system, the method comprising:\n receiving a first image corresponding to a portion of an environment, said first image including a non-occluded image portion corresponding to a portion of the environment visible from a first location; receiving an additional image of the environment including at least a first occluded image portion corresponding to a portion of the environment occluded from view from said first location; generating a first frame including image content from said non-occluded image portion of said first image and image content from said first occluded image portion of the additional image; and storing said first frame in a storage device or transmitting said first frame to another device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.975
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15058132', '15058125', '15058128', '15058131', '14726431']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6764679064228601
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5306675445787963
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6618878702384539
- Mean Citation Score: 341.593798
- Max Citation Score: 367.9995
- Similarity Product: 356.50341996234664

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