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 2):
The method of  claim 1 :\n further comprising recording a sequence of images of the ground area below the tool housing, the sequence of images comprising the second image; further comprising, in response to detecting the blades of the first weeding module in the open position in the second image, selecting the second image from the sequence of images; and wherein detecting the blades of the first weeding module in the open position in the second image further comprises:\n detecting the blades of the first weeding module in the open position by detecting a position of blade fiducials of the first weeding module in the second image, the blade fiducials of the first weeding module mechanically constrained relative to the blades of the first weeding module; and \n in response to the position of the blade fiducials of the first weeding module in the second image indicating the open position, detecting blades of the first weeding module in the open position.

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): 0.6387480073107129
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4793414266588919
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6228073492455308
- Mean Citation Score: 110.808884
- Max Citation Score: 120.40467
- Similarity Product: 76.14180050560176

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