PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16356887
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["348", "345000"]

Abstract:
A digital camera includes an imaging element ( 5 ) having an imaging surface ( 50 ) where pixels ( 51 ) are arranged in two dimensions in a row direction X and in a column direction Y, an AF processing unit ( 19 ) that determines whether a focus lens is in a focused state using detection signals obtained from respective pixels ( 51 ) of a first pixel group including plural pixels ( 51 ) arranged in the row direction X and a second pixel group including pixels ( 51 ) arranged at the same distance in one direction that crosses the row direction X with respect to each of the plural pixels ( 51 ) of the first pixel group, in a state where the focus lens is at an arbitrary position, and a system control unit ( 11 ) that moves the focus lens until the AF processing unit ( 19 ) determines that the focus lens is in the focused state.

Claim (Index 6):
A focusing control method in an imaging device including an imaging element that includes some pixels in a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels output captured image signals and the some pixels of the plurality of pixels output captured image signals and are used as signal detection pixels that detect a signal based on a beam that passes through a pupil region of an imaging optical system that includes a focus lens, and wherein the signal detection pixels are arranged in two dimensions in a row direction and a column direction that is orthogonal to the row direction, the method comprising:\n a focusing determination step of determining whether the focus lens is in a focused state based on correlation values which are calculated by correlating signal levels of a detection signal group of a first signal detection pixel group that includes a plurality of signal detection pixels arranged in the row direction and signal levels of a detection signal group of a second signal detection pixel group that includes the signal detection pixels arranged at the same distance in one direction that crosses the row direction with respect to each of a plurality of signal detection pixels that forms the first signal detection pixel group, in a state where the focus lens is at an arbitrary position, and based on a predetermined threshold value; and a focusing control step of moving the focus lens until the focus lens is in the focused state is determined in the focusing determination step.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36111
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15260768', '15258804', '14867102', '15233079', '15590019']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6434316803515545
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5214023575777613
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6312287480741753
- Mean Citation Score: 275.126358
- Max Citation Score: 350.05164
- Similarity Product: 340.16283456730133

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test