PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948911
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["396", "428000"]

Abstract:
An improved tripod head including a cylindrical body having a cavity and a ball joint rotationally positioned into the cavity. A stern is attached to the ball joint, the stem having an attached camera mount configured to accept and hold a camera steady during operation. A positional feature provided on a front portion of the cylindrical body, the positional feature providing to a larger range of motion when the stem is in a horizontal position compared to the prior art. The stem in a horizontal position corresponds to portrait mode photography.

Claim (Index 1):
A tripod head comprising:\n a cylindrical body having a cavity, the cylindrical body attached to a rotatable base, the rotatable base configured to be attached to a tripod; a ball joint rotationally positioned into the cavity; a stem attached to the ball joint; a camera mount attached to the stem, the camera mount configured to accept and hold a camera steady during operation; a positional feature provided on a front portion of the cylindrical body, the positional feature comprising an opening, a pair of vertically opposed parallel surfaces leading into a first pair of angled surfaces configured to expand a width of the positional feature, wherein the first pair of angled surfaces conform into a pair of pan surfaces, the pair of pan surfaces leading into a second pair of angled surfaces which meet centrally into a U-shaped tilt surface, wherein the opening enables the stem to enter the positional feature when the ball joint is rotated during operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70175
- Patent Class: 396.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13269895', '12740225', '14656119', '15161008', '15359437']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6270424200519593
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4731018918170145
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6116483672284649
- Mean Citation Score: 118.802282
- Max Citation Score: 134.97087
- Similarity Product: 97.14084920999407

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

Dataset: test