PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956215
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "139000"]

Abstract:
In a shape measuring apparatus, an image processing unit derives, based on a calculated disparity, absolute distance information about a first imaging target located in a common image region from a shape measuring apparatus. The image processing unit reconstructs a 3D shape of each of imaging subjects including the first and second imaging subjects based on the sequential monochrome images.

Claim (Index 7):
The shape measuring method according to  claim 6 , wherein:\n each of the first and second imaging devices comprises an image sensor that includes a light receiving area comprised of light-sensitive pixels arranged in horizontal rows and vertical columns, the capturing step using the first imaging device drives the corresponding image sensor in a rolling shutter mode to thereby capture each of the sequential monochrome images; and the capturing step using the second imaging device drives the corresponding image sensor in the rolling shutter mode to thereby capture the color image, the shape measuring method further comprising:\n changing, using at least one of the first and second imaging devices, at least one of a first exposure interval and a second exposure interval relative to the other thereof in accordance with a ratio of the first view angle to the second view angle, \n the first exposure interval representing an interval between an end of exposure of one horizontal row to incident light and a start of the exposure of a next horizontal row to incident light for each of the sequential monochrome images, the second exposure interval representing an interval between an end of the exposure of one horizontal line to incident light and a start of the exposure of a next horizontal line to incident light for the color image, changing of at least one of the first exposure interval and the second exposure interval relative to the other thereof resulting in substantial synchronization of an exposure period of the common image region of each of the sequential monochrome images with an exposure period of the color image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58537
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15265731', '10932343', '13207224', '13235280', '10392034']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5978949068755746
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4851157529499276
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5866169914830098
- Mean Citation Score: 160.71224999999995
- Max Citation Score: 180.2436
- Similarity Product: 121.80292474765776

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