PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15985542
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "240100"]

Abstract:
A subject detection unit of an imaging apparatus detects a subject image from an image. An automatic zoom control unit designates the subject image detected by the subject detection unit and cancels the designation. The automatic zoom control unit automatically selects a specific composition among a plurality of compositions and sets a reference size of the subject image used to control a zoom magnification based on the elected composition. The automatic zoom control unit controls the zoom magnification based on the reference size and a size of the subject image sequentially detected by the subject detection unit. At least one of composition selection candidates selected by the automatic zoom control unit is different according to whether the subject image is designated by the automatic zoom control unit.

Claim (Index 21):
A zoom control device comprising:\n a memory holding a program; at least one processor which executes the program held in the memory so as to function as: a subject detection unit configured to detect a subject image from an image; a designation unit configured to designate a photographing target subject from the subject image detected by the subject detection unit and to cancel the designation; a scene composition selection unit configured to automatically select a specific scene composition from among a plurality of scene composition candidates; a setting unit configured to set a reference size of the subject image used to control a zoom magnification based on the specific scene composition selected by the scene composition selection unit; and a control unit configured to control the zoom magnification based on the reference size set by the setting unit and a size of the subject image sequentially detected by the subject detection unit, wherein when a plurality of subject images is detected from the image by the subject detection unit, the scene composition selection unit changes the specific scene composition to be selected from among a plurality of scene composition candidates according to whether the photographing target subject is or is not designated by the designation unit and the control unit changes the zoom magnification according to whether the photographing target subject is or is not designated by the designation unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44444
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14976111', '14976126', '14976171', '14976138', '14552236']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6463792631234748
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5474660756292183
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6364879443740492
- Mean Citation Score: 332.845148
- Max Citation Score: 402.91714
- Similarity Product: 383.7010473000885

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