PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15746186
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["348", "349000"]

Abstract:
The present technology relates to an image pickup apparatus, an image pickup control method, and a program that enable focus control to be performed without depending on environmental conditions and optical conditions, for example. An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup device having a predetermined image pickup area; a lens drive unit that drives a focus lens; a storage unit that stores, in a lookup table, a correspondence relationship between distance information with respect to a subject and lens position information of the focus lens; a distance information acquisition unit that acquires distance information with respect to an object existing in the image pickup area; and a control unit that controls the lens drive unit on the basis of the distance information acquired by the distance information acquisition unit and the lookup table. The present technology is applicable to, for example, an image pickup apparatus that performs focus control.

Claim (Index 5):
The image pickup apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the distance information acquisition unit is provided at a different position from the image pickup device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42647
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14859493', '14920371', '14019632', '12414062', '14507061']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6621493143734027
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4954980653392377
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6454841894699863
- Mean Citation Score: 237.189452
- Max Citation Score: 245.2664
- Similarity Product: 183.52001552958487

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

Dataset: test