PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968147
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "362000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for processing images includes an image sensor to output a long exposure image frame based upon a first exposure time and at least two short exposure image frames having a single, second exposure time different from the first exposure time; a mode determination unit to determine the second exposure time based on the number of saturated pixels in the image frame output from the image sensor; a shutter controller to control the exposure time of each frame of the image sensor based on an output signal from the mode detection unit; and an image processing unit to fuse the long exposure image frame and the at least two short exposure image frames to output a wide dynamic range (WDR) image. Methods for processing WDR images are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 19):
The apparatus of  claim 14 , further comprising the step of outputting the long exposure image frame based upon the first exposure time and the at least two short exposure image frames having at least two second exposure times different from the first exposure time, when the number of pixels saturated is larger than the predetermined reference value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2623
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14640191', '13953971', '13935609', '15183495', '14073340']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5765440885630917
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4902216718017675
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5679118468869593
- Mean Citation Score: 195.495098
- Max Citation Score: 206.7406
- Similarity Product: 152.47903220175502

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

Dataset: test