PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909203
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["250", "459100"]

Abstract:
Provided is a microscope including: a scanner for scanning excitation light; an objective optical system that focuses the excitation light onto a sample and that collects fluorescence generated by the sample; a light-blocking member for transmitting a portion of the collected fluorescence; a detector for detecting the fluorescence; a setting unit that allows types of fluorescence having passed through the light-blocking member to be detected by the detector at different times in two types of positional relationships in which the positional relationship between the position of an opening in the light-blocking member and a focal point of the objective optical system in the sample is set to an optically conjugate positional relationship, in which in-focus fluorescence passes through the light-blocking member, and to an optically nonconjugate positional relationship; and an arithmetic operation unit for calculating the difference between fluorescence signals acquired at different times by the detector.

Claim (Index 1):
A microscope comprising:\n a scanner for scanning excitation light from a light source; an objective optical system that focuses the excitation light scanned by the scanner onto a sample and that collects fluorescence generated by the sample at each scanning position; a light-blocking member that transmits a portion of the fluorescence collected by the objective optical system and that blocks another portion; a detector for detecting the fluorescence having passed through the light-blocking member; a setting unit that sets a positional relationship between the position of an opening in the light-blocking member and a focal point of the objective optical system in the sample to an optically conjugate positional relationship, in which in-focus fluorescence emitted from the focal point passes through the light-blocking member in an optical path from the sample to the detector, and to an optically nonconjugate positional relationship, in which the in-focus fluorescence does not pass through the light-blocking member, and that causes the detector to detect, at different times, types of fluorescence having passed through the light-blocking member in the set two types of positional relationships; and an arithmetic operation unit for calculating the difference between fluorescence signals acquired by the detector at the different times.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16667
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15275359', '11805378', '15436738', '10579975', '12148671']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7176349097214169
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5204104223057234
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6979124609798476
- Mean Citation Score: 262.017596
- Max Citation Score: 339.9049
- Similarity Product: 317.6647652344405

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

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