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Hypothetical/Real Case
- Technical Field: Drone(Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)
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• The “Drone” market (excluding military and hobby) in the world is
expected to reach 100 billion JPY in 2030.
Rapidly Growing
(About 33 times)
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World Market Transition of Drone (Prediction)
Reference : http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO88951410W5A700C1000000/
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Drone (definition in this analysis)
= Unmanned, Small and Remote-controllable Aerial Vehicle
NOT care about the shapes.
Ex) following objects are treated as drone
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There are many applications from Yamaha, Honeywell and MHI.
There are only 2 applications from DJI
which is a famous company as Drone.
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Reference: TOP PATENT APPLICANTS(Filing to JPO)
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There are many filings from AEROVIRONMENT.
There are only 3 filings from DJI.
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AEROVIRONMENT has been filing patents on drone for long years.
DJI has just started filing patents since couple of years ago.
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New Entree and Retired Applicants
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It is difficult to know details of inventions from each applicant.
-> Text Mining Tool makes the contents more clarified.
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Applicants – IPCs Matrix
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Term Frequency (All Applicants)To analyze easily, the target should be focused on main applicants.
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Term Frequency(Specific Applicants)
Words used in patent descriptions related to drone are listed by frequency.
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Term Frequency(Specific Applicants)Unexpected words are sometimes discovered such as “speaker”.
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Dependency Frequency It is possible to analyze dependency between words used in the description. (e.g. “cell – mount”, “drone-steal”…)
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Characteristic Words (AEROVIRONMENT)
The terms “cell” and “photovoltaic” are especially used by the company.
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There is a possibility that
BELI HELICOPTER
has differentiated technology.
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Bubble Chart between applicants and the characteristic words (1995 to 2004)
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During the period, all
companies may use similar
technology, but there is a
possibility that
SAAB
has differentiated
technology.
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Bubble Chart between applicants and the characteristic words (2005 to 2009)
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There is a possibility that
ALSHDAIFAT etc.
has differentiated
technology.
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Bubble Chart between applicants and the characteristic words (2010 to 2014)
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The terms “photovoltaic”,
“cell” are characteristic
words of
AEROVIROMENT.
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Term Network
The terms “nozzle”,
“torque” are characteristic
words of
BELL HELICOPTER.
The term
“policeman” is
characteristic word
of
ALSHDAIFAT etc.
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Term Network
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There is a possibility
that
AEROVIRONMENT,
RAYHEON,
and
KESPRY
use similar technology
to each others.
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Applicants – IPCs MatrixSometimes it is not easy to survey characteristics
of applicants just by using IPC.
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CPC Rank of Google Filings
particular use?
Other than bombs?
Text Mining Studio (NTT DATA Mathematics Systems Inc.) is very useful in case of not understanding patent classification!
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To analyze easily, the target should be focused on main applicants.
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Why medical?
Term Frequency (Google)
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Dependency Frequency ( Google)
“medical” seems to be related to the terms “support” and “situation”.
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Term Network (medical,support,situation) It seems that drone is used for medical support.
Connect to the Prox Dynamics AS via the term “remote”
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Bibliographic data
Inventor Google Inc. (US)
Title of Invention
Providing emergency medical services using unmanned aerial vehicles
Patent No. US9051043
要約
Embodiments described herein may help to
provide medical support via a fleet of unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs). An illustrative medical-
support system may include multiple UAVs, which
are configured to provide medical support for a
number of different medical situations. Further,
the medical-support system may be configured to:
(a) identify a remote medical situation, (b)
determine a target location corresponding to the
medical situation, (c) select a UAV from the fleet of
UAVs, where the selection of the UAV is based on
a determination that the selected UAV is
configured for the identified medical situation, and
(d) cause the selected UAV to travel to the target
location to provide medical support.
遠隔地の医療状況を特定し、状況に対応する目的地を決定し、複数のドローンから適切なドローンを選択し、目的地に向かわせる医療サポートシステムに関する発明。
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Prox is developing the situation monitoring system which combines the image data captured by a drone camera with map.
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Honeywell Aerospace
• T-Hawk (For monitoring and scouting, also
demonstrating combat since 2007)
• Small (Storable in backpack)
• Light (Under 20 Pounds)
• Easy to construct (Possible to take-off in ten minutes)
• High Speed Flight (50 miles/hour)
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Google is aiming to start drone
delivery service from 2017.
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Main inventorgroup of Google Inc.
Boeing
鴻海精密工業
Aurora flight sciences
InsituAeroenvironment
Verizon patent and licensing
By using NTT DATA MSI's Patent Text Mining Tools, it is possible to describe network graph of inventors.
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Which area do inventors of Google have strong points.
3 inventors shown in previous page often file patents jointly.
They seems to be developers specializes in not hardware but control software.
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