PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756084
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["382", "103000"]

Abstract:
An image processing apparatus for tracking a target object to be tracked included in a plurality of consecutively captured images, the image processing apparatus comprises an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image; a template acquisition unit configured to acquire a template corresponding to a target object to be tracked included in the image; a masking map generation unit configured to generate a masking map serving as a map indicative of a degree of masking the target object to be tracked, which is included in the image, by another object; and a tracking unit configured to detect the target object to be tracked included in the image by using the template, and acquire over a plurality of images an amount of movement of the target object to be tracked and a direction of the movement of the target object to be tracked, based on both of the template and the masking map.

Claim (Index 7):
The image processing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the template acquisition unit uses an image obtained by clipping the target object to be tracked, which has been detected by the tracking unit, as the template in the next frame.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.0566
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15756106', '15479741', '14326683', '14326690', '10585255']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3495821939491589
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4999875418321233
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3646227287374554
- Mean Citation Score: 195.505324
- Max Citation Score: 258.30927
- Similarity Product: 195.22326632712543

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

Dataset: test