PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977516
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["348", "333010"]

Abstract:
The smart phone viewfinder comprises a tubular body mounted on a screen for a smart phone to provide a light sealed sight channel between an eye-cup and a hood bearing against the screen on the inside and a phone app for adapting the image captured by the phone camera lens to be viewable in the viewfinder. The light sealed channel provides visual communication from the eye-cup to the screen. A software application executable on the phone may be adapted to adjust the size and position of the image visible through the light sealed sight channel. The software application is further adapted to select and position icons on the screen for camera control. The light sealed sight channel adapted to reduce ambient light.

Claim (Index 27):
A viewfinder for use with a phone, the phone having a screen, and a camera function, the viewfinder comprising:\n an eyepiece, the eyepiece comprising a hollow body, a lens, an eye-cup and a hood, the hollow body comprising an inside, an outside and a light sealed sight channel, the light sealed sight channel in the body, the light sealed sight channel having a cup opening and a hood opening, the eye-cup on the outside, the eye-cup in visual communication with the screen, the hood on the body, the hood spaced from the eye-cup, the hood bearing against the screen, the lens disposed in the light sealed sight channel; and a clamp, the clamp on the body, the clamp attached to the phone.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08197
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11881931', '13403843', '13762560', '10688534', '15089106']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.610137603127506
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4737542472721739
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5964992675419727
- Mean Citation Score: 170.651746
- Max Citation Score: 183.41591
- Similarity Product: 138.8259412314963

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

Dataset: test