PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15928328
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "216100"]

Abstract:
A camera apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an image sensor, an electrochromic filter element, an infrared illuminator, and a controller configured to activate at least one from among the electrochromic filter element and the infrared illuminator based on a feature of an image of a scene captured by the image sensor.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for operating a camera, the method comprising:\n sampling a first image of a scene; determining whether the sampled first image contains a nighttime scene; activating at least one from among an electrochromic filter layer configured to allow a light transmission wavelength of 100 nm to 1000 nm in response to being activated and an infrared illuminator in response to determining that the sampled first image includes a nighttime scene; and capturing a second image of the scene using the activated at least one from among the electrochromic filter layer and the infrared illuminator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.58333
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15856993', '15339839', '14877828', '15226973', '13674564']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.568223945401209
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4764308028822363
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5590446311493118
- Mean Citation Score: 162.177952
- Max Citation Score: 167.11235
- Similarity Product: 125.28203869534433

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

Dataset: test