PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885291
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["359", "823000"]

Abstract:
A focus control apparatus includes a controller configured to provide a focus control that holds an object distance on which an image capturing optical system is focused that includes a magnification varying lens and a focus lens, and a calculator configured to calculate a defocus amount by using information on lens sensitivity that represents a relationship between a unit moving amount of the magnification varying lens and a moving amount of an image plane in the image capturing optical system, and information on error amounts of stop positions of the magnification varying lens and that of the focus lens. The controller moves the focus lens in a moving range limited based on the defocus amount.

Claim (Index 27):
A focus control apparatus comprising a controller configured to control a focus lens so as to hold an object distance on which an image capturing optical system is focused, and controls the focus lens based on one of a plurality of focus position correction modes that correct a focus position in accordance with a change of a temperature, and\n wherein the focus position correction modes include a first focus position correction mode that moves the focus lens in a holding direction of the object distance without performing the focus control in accordance with a change amount of the temperature, a second focus position correction mode that moves the focus lens by the focus control in a moving range that contains a position of the focus lens moved by the first thermal focus correction, in accordance with the change amount of the temperature, and a third focus position correction mode that contains the first focus position correction mode and the second focus position correction mode in accordance with the change amount of the temperature, and wherein the controller controls the focus lens based on one of the first focus position correction mode, the second focus position correction mode, and the third focus position correction mode, selected by a user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16364
- Patent Class: 359.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13475427', '15673518', '15812489', '15471245', '15655136']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8116882418254597
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4864182464858154
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7791612422914953
- Mean Citation Score: 236.208446
- Max Citation Score: 238.3089
- Similarity Product: 163.67028336523174

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