PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968147
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "362000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for processing images includes an image sensor to output a long exposure image frame based upon a first exposure time and at least two short exposure image frames having a single, second exposure time different from the first exposure time; a mode determination unit to determine the second exposure time based on the number of saturated pixels in the image frame output from the image sensor; a shutter controller to control the exposure time of each frame of the image sensor based on an output signal from the mode detection unit; and an image processing unit to fuse the long exposure image frame and the at least two short exposure image frames to output a wide dynamic range (WDR) image. Methods for processing WDR images are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 20):
The apparatus of  claim 19 , wherein the at least two short exposure image frames comprises three short exposure image frames having three different second exposure times smaller than the first exposure time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2623
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14640191', '13953971', '13935609', '15183495', '14073340']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6007147451422249
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5117122902853284
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5918144996565353
- Mean Citation Score: 195.495098
- Max Citation Score: 206.7406
- Similarity Product: 121.55197562229635

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

Dataset: test