PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16149642
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["348", "370000"]

Abstract:
An image acquisition system  1  includes: a light source  3  which outputs illumination light; an optical scanner  7  which scans a sample S with the illumination light; an optical scanner control unit  9 ; a detection optical system  15, 17  which focuses fluorescence from the sample S; an imaging device  19  which has a light receiving surface  19 c  in which a plurality of pixel rows  19 d  are arranged, and an imaging control section  19 b , and which can perform signal readout of each of the plurality of pixel rows  19 d  from the light receiving surface  19 c ; and a calculation unit  21  which calculates an interval of signal readout between adjacent pixel rows  19 d , based on a moving speed of an illuminated region on the light receiving surface  19 c ; the imaging control section  19 b  controls signal readout of each pixel row  19 d , based on the interval of the signal readout thus calculated.

Claim (Index 25):
An imaging apparatus for performing signal readout by rolling readout of each of a plurality of pixel rows to acquire an image of an object illuminated by a scanned illumination light, comprising:\n a light receiving section in which the plurality of pixel rows are arranged; an imaging control section for controlling signal readout of the light receiving section based on a driving clock; and an external signal receiving section coupled to the imaging control section and for receiving an external signal, wherein the external signal receiving section is coupled to a calculation unit which generates the external signal, wherein the external signal comprises data indicative of an interval of start timing of signal readout between adjacent pixel rows, wherein the interval of start timing of signal readout between adjacent pixel rows is calculated by the calculation unit to synchronize with a scanning of the object with the illumination light, and wherein start timing of signal readout of each pixel row is controlled based on the external signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31081
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15145031', '14413602', '14895078', '15974144', '15956582']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.613342763884592
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.568501330706853
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.608858620566818
- Mean Citation Score: 322.6550900000001
- Max Citation Score: 449.05997
- Similarity Product: 386.23068583750666

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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