PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15953218
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["382", "110000"]

Abstract:
A system that includes a three-dimensional (3D) camera configured to capture a 3D image of a rearview of a dairy livestock in a stall and a processor. The processor is configured to obtain the 3D image, identify one or more regions within the 3D image comprising depth values greater than a depth value threshold, and s to identify a thigh gap region from the one or more regions. The processor is further configured to demarcate an access region within the thigh gap region and demarcate a tail detection region. The processor is further configured to identify one or more tail candidates within the tail detection region, to identify a tail candidate that corresponds with a tail model as the tail, and to determine position information for the tail.

Claim (Index 7):
An apparatus comprising:\n a memory operable to store three-dimensional (3D) images, wherein each pixel of the 3D image is associated with a depth value; and a processor operably coupled to the memory, and configured to:\n obtain a 3D image of a rearview of a dairy livestock in a stall; \n identify one or more regions within the 3D image comprising depth values greater than a depth value threshold; \n identify a thigh gap region among the one or more regions, wherein the thigh gap region comprises an area between hind legs of the dairy livestock; \n demarcate an access region within the thigh gap region, wherein the access region is defined by:\n a first vertical edge, \n a second vertical edge, \n a first upper edge spanning between the first vertical edge and the second vertical edge, and \n a first lower edge spanning between the first vertical edge and the second vertical edge; \n \n demarcate a tail detection region, wherein the tail detection region is defined by:\n a third vertical edge extending vertically from the first vertical edge of the access region, \n a fourth vertical edge extending vertically from the second vertical edge of the access region, \n a second upper edge spanning between the third vertical edge and the fourth vertical edge, and \n a second lower edge spanning between the third vertical edge and the fourth vertical edge, wherein the second lower edge is adjacent to the first upper edge of the access region; \n \n identify one or more tail candidates within the tail detection region; \n compare the one or more tail candidates to a tail model; and \n identify a tail candidate from among the one or more tail candidates as a tail of the dairy livestock when the tail candidate corresponds with the tail model; and \n determine position information for the tail of the dairy livestock in response to identifying the tail of the dairy livestock.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22581
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15239425', '15239300', '15239477', '15239559', '15910461']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3907806274581024
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.624395023042096
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4141420670165018
- Mean Citation Score: 485.392514
- Max Citation Score: 579.9723
- Similarity Product: 529.372762219405

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