PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909072
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "371000"]

Abstract:
An image pickup apparatus which is capable of improving ease of operation for a photographer in bounce flash photography. The image pickup apparatus is able to be equipped with an illumination apparatus having a light emitter and has an operating portion for causing light from the light emitter to be reflected by a reflector to illuminate a subject. It is judged whether or not a first mode in which in response to operation on the operating portion, light from the light emitter to be reflected by the reflector to illuminate the subject is set as an operating mode of the illumination apparatus. According to whether or not the illumination apparatus is placed in the first mode, different types of control are provided when the operating portion is operated.

Claim (Index 3):
The image pickup apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein when the judgment unit does not judge that the illumination apparatus is placed in the first mode, the control unit sends a light-emitting instruction, which is different from an instruction for causing light from the light-emitter to be reflected by the reflector to illuminate the subject, to the illumination apparatus according to an operation on the operating portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12698
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15412186', '15608559', '15475569', '15787981', '14819168']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.634250647284779
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4795515836684053
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6187807409231416
- Mean Citation Score: 170.89943800000003
- Max Citation Score: 189.48074
- Similarity Product: 141.47418709628818

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