PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16051564
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["348", "345000"]

Abstract:
In a focus control apparatus, an acquisition unit periodically acquires a pair of focus detection signals, a focus detection unit detects a focus state of a first area using a phase difference and, in a case where the focus state of the first area is not within a first range, detects a focus state using a phase difference in a second area arranged in a periphery of the first area, and a control unit controls to perform focus control. The focus control is performed based on the focus state of the second area if it is within a second range and, if a subject exists on a near side, focus control is performed based on the focus state of the first area regardless of the focus state of the second area being detected or not.

Claim (Index 7):
The focus control apparatus according to  claim 6 , wherein, in a case where the number of focus detection areas in the first area having defocus amounts within the first range is less than the first threshold value, the focus detection unit divides the second area into a plurality of focus detection areas, obtains a defocus amount for each of the focus detection areas of the second area using a phase difference between the pair of focus detection signals, and in a case where the number of the focus detection areas in the second area having defocus amounts within the second range is equal to or greater than a second threshold value, performs focus detection using the defocus amounts of the focus detection areas in the second area having the defocus amounts within the second range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76923
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15000790', '12745564', '15682267', '15012063', '14248494']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.673359153872712
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.487051367749681
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.654728375260409
- Mean Citation Score: 251.481396
- Max Citation Score: 254.50665
- Similarity Product: 221.19463565620785

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