PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863442
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["356", "625000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a profile measuring apparatus, including: an irradiation section configured to irradiate a measurement light to a measurement area of the object; an imaging section configured to obtain an image of the measurement area; a table configured to place the object thereon; a coordinate calculation section configured to calculate a position of the measurement area based on an image detected by a detection section; and a positioning mechanism configured to drive and control a relative position of the imaging section and the table. The positioning mechanism calculates a relative position of the imaging section to the table, based on an information with respect to an edge line direction of a convex portion or an extending direction of a concave portion in the measurement area of the object having a repetitive concave-convex shape, to move at least one of the table and the imaging section.

Claim (Index 69):
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program which allows a computer to execute a method for measuring a three dimensional profile, the computer as a profile measuring apparatus including: an irradiator configured to irradiate a linear-shaped measurement light to an area on a surface of an object having a concave-convex shape which is periodically aligned in a circumferential direction of the object and extends in a direction different from the circumferential direction; an imager configured to obtain an image of the irradiated area; and a controller configured to calculate the profile of the object based on the obtained image, the method comprising:\n irradiating the measurement light to the irradiated area in a first direction, which is determined corresponding to a normal direction of the surface; obtaining the image of the measurement light from a second direction which is determined corresponding to a shape of the concave-convex shape in the irradiated area; and tilting a longitudinal direction of the linear-shaped measurement light with respect to both (a) the circumferential direction of the object and (b) at least one of a ridge-line direction of a convex portion in the irradiated area and an extending direction of a concave portion in the irradiated area

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32836
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13688873', '13648674', '13665021', '14779865', '13971868']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6423970221736058
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5290687397110159
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6310641939273469
- Mean Citation Score: 207.637038
- Max Citation Score: 349.93622
- Similarity Product: 334.4085920005023

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

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