PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16004794
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "370000"]

Abstract:
An image pickup apparatus capable of focusing correctly and of setting a bounce angle accurately. A lighting device that changes an irradiation angle is attached to an apparatus body. A first control unit drives the lighting device to perform pre-emission when the irradiation angle is controlled for bounce emission photographing where an object is photographed while being illuminated by a reflected light emitted from the lighting device and reflected by reflection material. A first distance measuring unit measures a first distance to the object and a second distance to the reflection material using the pre-emission. A second control unit sets up the irradiation angle based on the first and second distances and controls the lighting device to the set irradiation angle. A second distance measuring unit measures a third distance to the object during focus control. A prohibition unit prohibits the pre-emission when the second distance measuring unit measures the third distance.

Claim (Index 1):
An image pickup apparatus capable of perform emission photographing by using a lighting device having a driving unit which changes an irradiation direction of a light emitted from a light source, the image pickup apparatus comprising:\n at least one processor, the at least one processor functioning in accordance a program stored in a memory as: a focus control unit configured to perform focus control for focusing on an object; and a control unit configured to, during a predetermine period set according to an instruction regarding the focus control, prohibit an operation to emit the light from the light source for determining a direction to be targeted in a case where the driving unit changes the irradiation direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33824
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14632388', '15412186', '15608559', '15166054', '14312466']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6632721197080749
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5015126642950531
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6470961741667727
- Mean Citation Score: 280.53194999999994
- Max Citation Score: 288.14767
- Similarity Product: 232.00904440931083

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

Dataset: test