PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949149
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "069000"]

Abstract:
An endoscope apparatus includes an imaging element, a video signal generating circuit, an illuminator, and one or more controllers. An imaging area in which a plurality of pixels are disposed includes a scanning area. In a case in which a first operation mode is set, the one or more controllers control the imaging element such that at least parts of the exposure periods of the pixels disposed in at least a part of the scanning area overlap each other. In a case in which a second operation mode is set, the one or more controllers control the illuminator such that the light source is turned on in a period in which at least parts of the exposure periods of the pixels disposed in at least a part of the scanning area overlap each other.

Claim (Index 8):
The endoscope apparatus according to  claim 5 ,\n wherein a method of driving the imaging element is a rolling shutter, the imaging element further includes a signal processing circuit configured to amplify the imaging signals output from the plurality of pixels with a predetermined gain, the scanning area includes a first area and a second area, the first area is an area in which a length of a period, in which the illumination light is emitted to the subject in the exposure period, is a first time, the second area is an area in which a length of a period, in which the illumination light is emitted to the subject in the exposure period, is a second time that is shorter than the first time, a second gain has a value calculated by dividing the first time by the second time and multiplying a quotient thereof by a first gain, the second gain is a gain when the imaging signals read from the pixels disposed in the second area are amplified by the signal processing circuit, and the first gain is a gain when the imaging signals read from the pixels disposed in the first area are amplified by the signal processing circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15948264', '14472606', '12561050', '15351527', '12765265']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6000115811126945
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5284569686866748
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5928561198700926
- Mean Citation Score: 220.689056
- Max Citation Score: 329.73175
- Similarity Product: 254.2747003076225

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