PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16041421
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "036000"]

Abstract:
An image processing apparatus detecting a plurality of joint positions between a plurality of input images includes a target image generation unit configured to generate a plurality of target images to be searched in a second input image among the input images from a first input image among the input images; a characteristic amount calculation unit configured to calculate a characteristic amount for each of the target images generated by the target image generation unit; and a joint position determination unit configured to determine the joint position for a target image of interest among the target images having the characteristic amounts calculated by the characteristic amount calculation unit depending on the characteristic amount.

Claim (Index 4):
An image processing method detecting a plurality of joint positions between a plurality of input images, executed by a computer, the method comprising:\n determining a plurality of target images, from a first input image among the input images, to be searched in a region of a second input image among the input images that overlaps the first input image; calculating a characteristic amount for each of the target images from the first input image; obtaining a first joint position of a first target image from the first input image among the target images, at which a second target image from the first input image among peripheral target images around the first target image from the first input image of interest is jointed, the second target image from the first input image having the characteristic amount greater than that of the first target image from the first input image; and detecting the first joint position for the first target image from the first input image based on a second joint position of the second target image from the first input image, the second joint position of the second target image from the first input image having already been determined, wherein the first joint position of the first target image from the first input image represents an offset between a position in the first target image from the first input image and a first position in the second input image, and the second joint position of the second target image from the first input image represents an offset between a position in the second target image from the first input image and a second position in the second input image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41667
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14914208', '14925702', '14812061', '14022987', '15497321']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6036900335759622
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6244119941533879
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6057622296337047
- Mean Citation Score: 350.93398
- Max Citation Score: 549.8069
- Similarity Product: 545.7434870500447

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