PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16174785
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["700", "284000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for assessing a field of plants for irrigation having program code to acquire at least one thermal image of a field having a plurality of plants thereon; generate a thermal map of the field from the thermal image providing a thermal value for a plurality of geographically referenced locations in the field; measure at least one weather parameter for the field; calculate a water stress value for each of the plurality of locations using the weather parameter and the thermal value; and estimate a water property value for each of the plurality of locations using the water stress value and a predetermined correlation of the water stress value and the water property value. Thus, the system leverages high-resolution aerial thermal imagery to estimate plant stress with the advantage of obtaining estimates of the water property value, such as the stem water potential (SWP), potentially for every plant in a field, thereby providing a more powerful tool for irrigation scheduling.

Claim (Index 21):
The system of  claim 20 , wherein the predetermined correlation is a correlation formed from previously collected data for the field, the previously collected data comprising a direct measurement of a prior water property value in the field and a prior calculated water stress value for each of a plurality of plants in the field.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41667
- Patent Class: 700.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15154926', '14268880', '15229968', '15883017', '15105115']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4013395642727123
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5385066499867207
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4150562728441131
- Mean Citation Score: 241.299382
- Max Citation Score: 409.49393
- Similarity Product: 309.77808429552374

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