PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16116960
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["348", "080000"]

Abstract:
When an observation target is enabled to be observed by a plurality of types of measuring methods having different principles, to make it possible switch an illuminating method in a plurality of ways to increase types of observation targets that can be observed. An observation target SP is illuminated by at least one of coaxial epi-illumination  24  and non-coaxial epi-illumination  25 . A focus search is performed on the basis of an image acquired by a first light receiving element  50 . The observation target SP is illuminated by a light source  26 . The focus search is performed on the basis of a signal acquired by a second light receiving element  51.

Claim (Index 1):
A magnifying observation apparatus that provides a magnified image of an observation target, the magnifying observation apparatus comprising:\n a placement table for placing the observation target; a non-confocal observation optical system including an objective lens; a confocal observation optical system including the objective lens; a light source which generates light for illuminating the observation target via the objective lens; a scanner which directs the light generated by the light source to the observation target to scan the observation target; a coaxial epi-illumination which illuminates the observation target via the objective lens; a non-coaxial epi-illumination which illuminates the observation target from a periphery of an optical axis of the objective lens; a vertical moving mechanism configured to change a relative distance between the objective lens and the placement table; a height-information detector which detects a height information; a first light receiver which images the observation target via the non-confocal observation optical system to acquire an image of the observation target; a second light receiver which measures the observation target via the confocal observation optical system; a first focus searching section configured to illuminate the observation target with at least one of the coaxial epi-illumination and the non-coaxial epi-illumination and determine a focus position on the basis of the height information detected by the height-information detector according to the relative distance changed by the vertical moving mechanism and an image acquired by the first light receiver; a second focus searching section configured to cause the scanner to direct the light generated by the light source on the observation target and determine a focus position on the basis of the height information detected by the height-information detector according to the relative distance changed by the vertical moving mechanism and a signal acquired by the second light receiver; a first three-dimensional-shape measuring section configured to measure a three-dimensional shape of the observation target on the basis of the focus position determined by the first focus searching section; and a second three-dimensional-shape measuring section configured to measure a three-dimensional shape of the observation target on the basis of the focus position determined by the second focus searching section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78462
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16116962', '15646444', '14551101', '15646432', '15646451']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6332740835075462
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5462122768239375
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6245679028391854
- Mean Citation Score: 271.705614
- Max Citation Score: 409.76425
- Similarity Product: 339.998785194397

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

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