PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949149
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "069000"]

Abstract:
An endoscope apparatus includes an imaging element, a video signal generating circuit, an illuminator, and one or more controllers. An imaging area in which a plurality of pixels are disposed includes a scanning area. In a case in which a first operation mode is set, the one or more controllers control the imaging element such that at least parts of the exposure periods of the pixels disposed in at least a part of the scanning area overlap each other. In a case in which a second operation mode is set, the one or more controllers control the illuminator such that the light source is turned on in a period in which at least parts of the exposure periods of the pixels disposed in at least a part of the scanning area overlap each other.

Claim (Index 12):
The endoscope apparatus according to  claim 11 ,\n wherein in a case in which an emission time is completely included in the exposure periods of first pixels of the scanning area and only a part of the emission time is included in the exposure periods of second pixels of the scanning area, the one or more controllers are configured to control the illuminator such that a first time and a second time are the same, the second pixels are different from the first pixels, the emission time is a length of a period in which the illumination light is emitted to the subject in accordance with intermittent turning-on of the light source once, the first time is a length of a period in which the illumination light is emitted to the subject in accordance with intermittent turning-on of the light source once in the exposure periods of the first pixels, and the second time is a sum of a plurality of lengths of periods in which the illumination light is emitted to the subject in accordance with plural times of intermittent turning-on of the light source in the exposure periods of the second pixels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.6
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15948264', '14472606', '12561050', '15351527', '12765265']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6000196994769299
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5281159186416257
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5928293213933995
- Mean Citation Score: 220.689056
- Max Citation Score: 329.73175
- Similarity Product: 257.71762776929137

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

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