PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977516
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["348", "333010"]

Abstract:
The smart phone viewfinder comprises a tubular body mounted on a screen for a smart phone to provide a light sealed sight channel between an eye-cup and a hood bearing against the screen on the inside and a phone app for adapting the image captured by the phone camera lens to be viewable in the viewfinder. The light sealed channel provides visual communication from the eye-cup to the screen. A software application executable on the phone may be adapted to adjust the size and position of the image visible through the light sealed sight channel. The software application is further adapted to select and position icons on the screen for camera control. The light sealed sight channel adapted to reduce ambient light.

Claim (Index 15):
A viewfinder for use with a phone, the phone having a screen and a camera function, the viewfinder comprising:\n an eyepiece, the eyepiece comprising a body, a lens, an eye-cup, and a hood, the body comprising an inside and an outside, the eye-cup on the body, the hood on the body, the hood spaced from the eye-cup, a sight channel on the inside, the sight channel comprising an opening in the body, the sight channel extending from the eye-cup to the hood, the eye-cup surrounding the cup opening, the hood surrounding the screen opening, the hood between the body and the screen, the hood bearing against the screen, whereby the sight channel forms a visual pathway from the eye-cup to the screen; a clamp, the clamp on the body, the clamp on the phone, a software application, the software application adapted to capture an image from the camera function, the software application adapted to display the image on the screen and dispose the image adjacent the hood.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08197
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11881931', '13403843', '13762560', '10688534', '15089106']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6108872241695844
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4707025875324485
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5968687605058709
- Mean Citation Score: 170.651746
- Max Citation Score: 183.41591
- Similarity Product: 142.6598714691251

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