PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16124576
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["348", "353000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus for controlling the focus of a camera arranged to capture a sequence of frames, includes an image processor configured to: form an image characteristic for a plurality of blocks of a first frame, each block comprising one or more pixels of the first frame; and calculate an image parameter for each block by combining the image characteristics of blocks lying within a predefined zone relative to that block; and a focus controller configured to derive a measure of focus for a selected frame area of the first frame by identifying a set of blocks whose respective predefined zones, when combined, substantially represent the selected frame area, and forming a measure of focus for the selected frame area by so combining the image parameters of the set of blocks; wherein the focus controller is configured to generate a signal for controlling camera focus in dependence on the measure of focus formed for the selected frame area of the first frame.

Claim (Index 16):
The method as claimed in  claim 11 , the identifying the selected frame area comprising processing the frame and/or a preceding frame of a sequence of frames comprising the frame so as to identify the selected frame area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36111
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15401182', '15468396', '15468493', '15053053', '15378977']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5519345652924131
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5289803861473567
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5496391473779075
- Mean Citation Score: 196.58367600000005
- Max Citation Score: 339.3463700000001
- Similarity Product: 273.96667332166976

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

Dataset: test