PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15777116
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["356", "612000"]

Abstract:
A method is proposed for inspecting cylinder-shaped elongated elements for smoking articles that provides projecting from a first half-space a first stripe of light onto an external face of a first elongated element and projecting from a second half-space onto the first elongated element a second stripe of light. The method reconstructs, by means of a first identified curved line and a second identified curved line respectively in a first acquired view and in a second acquired view of the first elongated element, a first closed curved section profile of the first elongated element and identifies possible deformations of the reconstructed first closed curved profile with respect to an ideal section profile. The method further includes the step of arranging an ideal elongated element alongside the first elongated element, respectively in a reference position and in a first position, inspecting simultaneously the first elongated element and the ideal elongated element by the first stripe of light and the second stripe of light reconstructing, by a first identified curved line and a second identified curved line respectively in the first view and in the second view a first closed curved section profile of the ideal elongated element monitoring the reconstructed closed curved profile of the ideal elongated element generating a warning if the reconstructed closed curved profile of the ideal elongated element is different from an ideal section profile, for example circular.

Claim (Index 10):
The method according to  claim 9 , in which calculating the first geometric transformation further includes also the following steps: processing the first view of the ideal elongated element framed from the first half-space to define a first curved line of the ideal elongated element; processing a second view of the ideal elongated element framed from the second half-space to define a second curved line of the ideal elongated element; identifying the processing mode capable of geometrically transforming the first identified curved line and the second identified curved line reconstructing the ideal section profile and selecting said processing mode as the first geometric transformation associated with the first position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.47826
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15777125', '12972386', '14837347', '12243830', '15083317']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6530299071351602
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5750988396431871
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6452368003859629
- Mean Citation Score: 206.79752
- Max Citation Score: 474.29
- Similarity Product: 365.8269811999798

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