PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948264
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "068000"]

Abstract:
An endoscope apparatus includes an imaging element, a video signal generating circuit, an illuminator, a light quantity detector, and one or more controllers. An imaging area in which a plurality of pixels are disposed includes a scanning area. The one or more controllers control the imaging element such that at least parts of exposure periods of the pixels disposed in at least a part of the scanning area overlap each other, in a case in which the light quantity is less than a predetermined quantity. 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, in a case in which the light quantity is less than the predetermined quantity.

Claim (Index 14):
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having a program for causing one or more controllers of an endoscope apparatus to execute a first step, a second step, a third step, and a fourth step recorded thereon,\n the endoscope apparatus comprising:\n an imaging element configured to generate imaging signals by imaging a subject and include a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix pattern, an imaging area in which the plurality of pixels are disposed including a scanning area, the imaging signals being read from at least a part of the pixels in each row in the scanning area; \n a video signal configured to generate circuit generating video signals from the imaging signals; \n an illuminator including a light source configured to generate illumination light emitted to the subject; \n a light quantity detector configured to detect a light quantity at a place in which the imaging element is disposed; and \n the one or more controllers configured to\n control the imaging element such that at least parts of exposure periods of the pixels disposed in at least a part of the scanning area overlap each other in the first step, in a case in which the light quantity detected by the light quantity detector is less than a predetermined quantity, \n 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 in the second step, in a case in which the light quantity detected by the light quantity detector is equal to or greater than the predetermined quantity, \n set an exposure time that is a length of the exposure period of the pixels to a second time that is shorter than a first time in the third step, in a case in which the light quantity detected by the light quantity \n set the exposure time of the pixels to the first time in the fourth step, in a case in which the light quantity detected by the light quantity detector is less than the predetermined quantity, after the exposure time of the pixels is set to the second time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78182
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13708149', '14472606', '11585080', '13182052', '15830237']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.571567584704527
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4868919291848359
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5631000191525579
- Mean Citation Score: 190.15418
- Max Citation Score: 197.26877
- Similarity Product: 146.45725964406012

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

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