PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15889332
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["348", "080000"]

Abstract:
In the image capturing apparatus, the optical path difference producing member is disposed on the second optical path. Thereby, it is possible to suppress the amount of light when an optical image which is focused at the front of an optical image made incident into the first imaging device (front focus) and an optical image which is focused at the rear thereof (rear focus) are respectively imaged at the second imaging device and also to secure the amount of light on image pickup by the first imaging device. Further, in the image capturing apparatus, a position of the first imaging region and a position of the second imaging region on the imaging area are reversed with respect to the axis P in association with reversal of a scanning direction of the sample. Therefore, despite the scanning direction of the sample, it is possible to obtain a deviation direction of the focus position under the same conditions.

Claim (Index 26):
The method of  claim 22 , further comprising:\n giving an optical path difference to the second optical image in such a manner that the optical path difference of the second optical image is symmetrical with respect to the axis of the imaging area orthogonal to a scanning direction at which the second optical image moves in association with scanning of the sample.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36111
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14397996', '14398029', '14397976', '14897097', '14786574']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6564761184323994
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.519679851642655
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6427964917534249
- Mean Citation Score: 293.12747
- Max Citation Score: 335.82803
- Similarity Product: 259.7615484746188

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

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