PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16267362
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["172", "002000"]

Abstract:
A method for weeding crops includes, at an autonomous machine: recording an image at the front of the autonomous machine; detecting a target plant and calculating an opening location for the target plant longitudinally offset and laterally aligned with the location of the first target plant; driving a weeding module to laterally align with the opening location; tracking the opening location relative to a longitudinal reference position of the weeding module; when the weeding module longitudinally aligns with the first opening location, actuating the blades of the first weeding module to an open position; recording an image proximal to the weeding module; and in response to detecting the blades of the weeding module in the open position: calculating an offset between the opening location and a reference position of the weeding module, based on the image; and updating successive opening locations calculated by the autonomous machine based on the offset.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 4 :\n further comprising, detecting a pixel location of the first target plant in the second image; further comprising, calculating a pixel location of the first opening location based on the pixel location of the first target plant in the second image; and wherein calculating the first longitudinal offset between the first opening location and the longitudinal reference position of the first weeding module further comprises calculating the first longitudinal offset between the first opening location and the longitudinal reference position of the first weeding module based on the pixel location of the first opening location and the pixel location of the longitudinal reference position in the second image. wherein calculating the first lateral offset between the first opening location and the lateral reference position of the first weeding module further comprises calculating the first lateral offset between the first opening location and the lateral reference position of the first weeding module based on the pixel location of the first opening location and the pixel location of the lateral reference position in the second image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.81034
- Patent Class: 172.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16260042', '15852749', '15693301', '15693336', '15693316']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.637762637214387
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4832260500007916
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6223089784930275
- Mean Citation Score: 110.808884
- Max Citation Score: 120.40467
- Similarity Product: 73.74469689552069

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

Dataset: test