PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15889332
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["348", "080000"]

Abstract:
In the image capturing apparatus, the optical path difference producing member is disposed on the second optical path. Thereby, it is possible to suppress the amount of light when an optical image which is focused at the front of an optical image made incident into the first imaging device (front focus) and an optical image which is focused at the rear thereof (rear focus) are respectively imaged at the second imaging device and also to secure the amount of light on image pickup by the first imaging device. Further, in the image capturing apparatus, a position of the first imaging region and a position of the second imaging region on the imaging area are reversed with respect to the axis P in association with reversal of a scanning direction of the sample. Therefore, despite the scanning direction of the sample, it is possible to obtain a deviation direction of the focus position under the same conditions.

Claim (Index 15):
An apparatus for capturing an image of a sample, the apparatus comprising:\n a stage configured to support a sample; an objective lens configured to face to the sample; a stage control unit configured to move the stage at a moving speed; a beam splitter optically coupled and configured to divide an optical image of at least a portion of the sample into a first optical image and a second optical image; a first image sensor configured to capture the at least a portion of the first optical image; a second image sensor configured to capture the at least a portion of the second optical image and provide image data; a focus controller configured to analyze the image data so as to control a focus position of the objective lens based on the analysis result; a region control unit of a computer system, configured to set, at an imaging area of the second image sensor, a first imaging region and a second imaging region so as to capture the at least the portion of the second optical image; and wherein the region control unit is configured to reverse a position of the first imaging region and a position of the second imaging region on the imaging area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36111
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14397996', '14398029', '14397976', '14897097', '14786574']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6563380466220528
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5137878946184626
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6420830314216938
- Mean Citation Score: 293.12747
- Max Citation Score: 335.82803
- Similarity Product: 330.4241047240162

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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