PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16257512
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["348", "148000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments include a method for autonomous camera pod tracking of a vehicle during vehicle alignment. The method can include receiving, at a processor of an autonomous camera pod, at least one of vehicle target image data from a vehicle target camera or calibration target image data from a calibration camera, the vehicle target camera being adapted to acquire images of a target mounted to the vehicle, and the calibration camera being adapted to acquire images of a calibration target mounted to a sister autonomous camera pod. An optimal location of the autonomous camera pod can be calculated based on the received vehicle target image data or calibration target image data. The method can include transmitting, when it is determined to move the autonomous camera pod, a motor command to a motor drive of the autonomous camera pod, thereby causing the autonomous camera pod to move to the optimal location.

Claim (Index 13):
A method for tracking a vehicle during vehicle alignment, the method comprising:\n providing a vehicle alignment system comprising:\n a first camera pod mounted to move relative to the vehicle and comprising a first motor drive and a first camera to image a first target mounted to the vehicle, and \n a second camera pod mounted to move relative to the vehicle and comprising a second motor drive, a second camera, and a calibration camera; \n acquiring, by the first camera, an image of the first target mounted to the vehicle; receiving, at one or more data processors, first image data from the first camera; calculating, at the one or more data processors, a first optimal location of the first camera pod; determining, at the one or more data processors, whether to move the first camera pod; transmitting, by the one or more data processors, when the one or more data processors determines to move the first camera pod, a first motor command to the first motor drive thereby causing the first camera pod to move relative to the vehicle to the first optimal location; acquiring, by the second camera, an image of a second target mounted to the vehicle and, by the calibration camera, an image of a calibration target mounted to the first camera pod; receiving, at the one or more data processors, calibration image data from the calibration camera; calculating, at the one or more data processors, an optimal location of the second camera pod based at least in part on the received calibration image data; determining, at the one or more data processors, whether to move the second camera pod; and transmitting, by the one or more data processors, when the one or more data processors determines to move the second camera pod, a second motor command to the second motor drive thereby causing the second camera pod to move relative to the vehicle to the second optimal location.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80702
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14463599', '14463604', '15287499', '11882451', '15678825']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5931118352768916
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.551814007790374
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5889820525282399
- Mean Citation Score: 270.46076600000004
- Max Citation Score: 404.72452
- Similarity Product: 346.9875967168784

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