PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15758455
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "345000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure describes imaging techniques and devices having improved autofocus capabilities. The imaging techniques can include actively illuminating a scene and determining distances over the entire scene and so that a respective distance to each object or point in the scene can be determined. Thus, distances to all objects in a scene (within a particular range) at any given instant can be stored. A preview of the image can be displayed so as to allow a user to select a region of the scene of interest. In response to the user's selection, the imager's optical assembly can be adjusted automatically, for example, to a position that corresponds to optimal image capture of objects at the particular distance of the selected region of the scene.

Claim (Index 15):
An apparatus comprising:\n a host device comprising a display screen and operable to receive user input; and an imaging device comprising:\n an imager operable to acquire an image of a scene, the imager including an adjustable optical assembly operable for autofocus; \n a time-of-flight module including: an illumination source to emit modulated or pulsed optical radiation, and a receiver operable to sense modulated or pulsed optical radiation reflected by one or more objects in the scene at a wavelength emitted by the illumination source and, in response to sensing the radiation, to generate output signals based on the sensed signals; \n one or more processors collectively operable to: cause a first image acquired by the imager to be displayed on the display screen; calculate a respective distance value for each of multiple regions of the displayed image based, at least in part, on the output signals;\n in response to input indicative of a user-selection of one of the regions of the displayed image, where the selected region of the image includes an object, estimate a future position of the object based, at least in part, on a distance that corresponds to the distance value associated with the user-selected region of the displayed image; and \n adjust the optical assembly so that the object is in focus for the imager when the object is at the future position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79221
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12664025', '15526126', '16066798', '10312891', '13273776']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5629472529302894
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4736234953554599
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5540148771728064
- Mean Citation Score: 173.30941
- Max Citation Score: 183.24905
- Similarity Product: 147.7650109482527

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