PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920463
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["348", "349000"]

Abstract:
Provided are an imaging apparatus and an imaging method capable of relatively accurately focusing on a main object in a relatively short time. A movement region ( 40 ) of a main object OA is imaged in a camera apparatus A and a different camera apparatus B. In the camera apparatus A, the main object OA is recognized from a captured image. Data indicating the position of the main object OA, transmitted from the camera apparatus B, is received in the camera apparatus A, and a focusing target range is set at the front and back of the position of the main object OA. A movement of a focus lens of the camera apparatus A is limited so as to focus on the focusing target range.

Claim (Index 20):
An imaging method comprising:\n acquiring position specification information for specifying the position of a main object in a real space, using position specification information acquisition unit; imaging an imaging range to obtain a captured image, using imaging unit; recognizing the main object from the captured image obtained by the imaging unit, using main object recognition unit; setting a range defined at the front and back of the position specified by the position specification information acquired in the position specification information acquisition unit as a focusing target range in which imaging is performed in a state of focusing on an object that is present within the range to limit a movement of a focus lens, using focusing control unit; driving the focus lens under the control of the focusing control unit, using focus unit; focusing a main object image of the main object recognized by the main object recognition unit on a light receiving surface using the focus lens driven by the focus unit to cause the imaging unit to perform imaging, using imaging control unit; transmitting by a first position detection imaging apparatus, in a case where the main object is imaged by the first position detection imaging apparatus, first distance data indicating a distance from the first position detection imaging apparatus to the main object and first angle data indicating an angle formed by the first position detection imaging apparatus and the main object; receiving, by a first reception unit of the position specification information acquisition unit, the first distance data and the first angle data transmitted by the first position detection imaging apparatus; and calculating, by a first calculating unit of the position specification information acquisition unit, position information for specifying the position of the main object on the basis of the first distance data and the first angle data received by the first reception unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41071
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11299211', '15010760', '13911769', '15428378', '15614216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6301381163783166
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4850356645901997
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.615627871199505
- Mean Citation Score: 219.348116
- Max Citation Score: 223.06654
- Similarity Product: 169.900563847332

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

Dataset: test