PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16140953
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["348", "046000"]

Abstract:
Dimensioning systems may automate or assist with determining the physical dimensions of an object without the need for a manual measurement. A dimensioning system may project a light pattern onto the object, capture an image of the reflected pattern, and observe changes in the imaged pattern to obtain a range image, which contains 3D information corresponding to the object. Then, using the range image, the dimensioning system may calculate the dimensions of the object. In some cases, a single range image does not contain 3D data sufficient for dimensioning the object. To mitigate or solve this problem, the present invention embraces capturing a plurality of range images from different perspectives, and then combining the range images (e.g., using image-stitching) to form a composite range-image, which can be used to determine the object's dimensions.

Claim (Index 1):
A method, comprising:\n projecting, using a pattern projector, a light pattern into a field-of-view of a range camera of a dimensioning system, the field-of-view comprising a portion of an object; capturing, using the range camera of the dimensioning system, a range image of the field-of-view, wherein each pixel of the range image represents a distance from the range camera to a respective point in the range camera's field-of-view; moving the dimensioning system and/or the object so that there is relative movement between the dimensioning system and the object, and the range camera's field-of-view contains a different portion of the object; repeating the capturing and the moving until a plurality of range images have been captured, wherein in each range image of the plurality of range images, each pixel of the range image represents a distance from the range camera to a respective point in the range camera's field-of-view; gathering information as the spatial relationship between the range camera and the object is changed, and the information is selected from the group consisting of tracking information and mapping information; combining the plurality of range images to create a composite range-image; and dimensioning the object using the composite range-image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77647
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14870488', '15182636', '16139900', '14928032', '14747490']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.674167000444897
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5404144945440674
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.660791749854814
- Mean Citation Score: 323.97573399999993
- Max Citation Score: 394.14914
- Similarity Product: 382.339007879579

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

Dataset: test