PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16051564
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["348", "345000"]

Abstract:
In a focus control apparatus, an acquisition unit periodically acquires a pair of focus detection signals, a focus detection unit detects a focus state of a first area using a phase difference and, in a case where the focus state of the first area is not within a first range, detects a focus state using a phase difference in a second area arranged in a periphery of the first area, and a control unit controls to perform focus control. The focus control is performed based on the focus state of the second area if it is within a second range and, if a subject exists on a near side, focus control is performed based on the focus state of the first area regardless of the focus state of the second area being detected or not.

Claim (Index 2):
The focus control apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the focus detection unit divides the first area into a plurality of focus detection areas, obtains a defocus amount for each of the focus detection areas using the phase difference between the pair of focus detection signals, and in a case where a number of focus detection areas having the defocus amount indicating a near side by a predetermined third range or more is larger than a predetermined number, determines that a subject exists on the near side.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76923
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15000790', '12745564', '15682267', '15012063', '14248494']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6717479652382056
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4954840664275462
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6541215753571397
- Mean Citation Score: 251.481396
- Max Citation Score: 254.50665
- Similarity Product: 197.6573894253552

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