PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16434417
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "240990"]

Abstract:
A dual-aperture zoom digital camera operable in both still and video modes. The camera includes Wide and Tele imaging sections with respective lens/sensor combinations and image signal processors and a camera controller operatively coupled to the Wide and Tele imaging sections. The Wide and Tele imaging sections provide respective image data. The controller is configured to output, in a zoom-in operation between a lower zoom factor (ZF) value and a higher ZF value, a zoom video output image that includes only Wide image data or only Tele image data, depending on whether a no-switching criterion is fulfilled or not.

Claim (Index 14):
A method for obtaining zoom images of an object or scene using a digital camera, comprising the steps of:\n a) providing in the digital camera a Wide imaging section having a Wide lens with a Wide field of view (FOV) and a Wide sensor, a Tele imaging section having a Tele lens with a Tele FOV that is narrower than the Wide FOV and a Tele sensor, and a camera controller operatively coupled to the Wide and Tele imaging sections; b) configuring the camera controller in one operational mode to evaluate if a no-switching criterion is fulfilled or not fulfilled, and, if the no-switching criterion is fulfilled, wherein if the no-switching criterion is fulfilled in a zoom-in operation between a lower zoom factor value (ZF) and a higher ZF, then at a ZF higher than an up-transfer ZF, the camera controller is further configured to output a zoom video image that includes only Wide image data, and wherein if the no-switching criterion is not fulfilled in the zoom-in operation, the camera controller is further configured to output at the same ZF higher than the up-transfer ZF a zoom video output image that includes only transformed, digitally zoomed Tele image data; and c) configuring the camera controller in another operational mode to register Tele image pixels to a matching pixel set within the Wide image pixels to obtain a fused image and to output the fused image from a point of view of the Wide imaging section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86207
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15324720', '16241505', '14365711', '15865869', '14880251']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7499216062057257
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6278839884567275
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7377178444308259
- Mean Citation Score: 483.72669800000006
- Max Citation Score: 513.66626
- Similarity Product: 498.1611295865727

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