PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16013634
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["348", "068000"]

Abstract:
Medical imaging camera head devices and methods are provided using light captured by an endoscope system or other medical scope or borescope. Afocal light from the scope is manipulated and split. The resulting first and second beams are passed through focusing optics to a single sensor. To take better advantage of the available number image sensor pixels, the beam may pass through lens elements (or prisms) to generate an anamorphic aspect ratio prior to being split, increasing the resolution of the image in one dimension. The afocal anamorphic beam is then split, and both images are focused on the image sensor. The anamorphism is compensated for in image processing, permitting higher resolution in one dimension along the image sensor. The manipulation of the beams prior to being split (and in some cases after or while being split) can take several forms, each offering distinct advantages over existing systems.

Claim (Index 30):
An optical imaging system for use with a medical scope, comprising:\n a first optical group comprising a beamsplitter optically arranged to receive single optical image light in an afocal state and split the single optical image into a first portion of light directed along a first optical path and a second portion of light directed along a second optical path; a second optical group comprising refractive elements optically arranged to receive the first and second portions of light from the beamsplitter and focus the first portion as a first image onto a first area of a common image sensor and focus the second portion as a second image onto a second area the common image sensor wherein the first and second image areas of the common sensor do not overlap; and one or more manipulating optical means located upstream of the second optical group to manipulate the first portion of light relative to the second portion of light, at least one of the manipulating optical means selected from the group consisting of an optical element that causes the first image to be brought to a different focus than the second image on the common image sensor, or a magnification means to manipulate the first portion of light such that the first and second images have different magnification at the common image sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67347
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11187584', '11780793', '15811543', '12414547', '13012529']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5664913250516936
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.475993455233568
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5574415380698811
- Mean Citation Score: 174.84518199999997
- Max Citation Score: 182.49597
- Similarity Product: 143.43199062182845

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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