PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16255252
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["348", "375000"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides the following camera. A first camera-side contact pin is a pin corresponding to detection of a signal change caused by coupling of a camera accessory. A second camera-side contact pin is a pin corresponding to supply of power for communication with the coupled camera accessory. A third camera-side contact pin is a pin corresponding to supply of a driving force to an actuator of the camera accessory. The first, second, and third camera-side contact pins are disposed in such a manner that, when a camera-side mount shifts from a first state to a second state, the third camera-side contact pin contacts first and second accessory-side contact surfaces, the second camera-side contact pin contacts the first accessory-side contact surface, and the first camera-side contact pin does not contact the second and third accessory-side contact surfaces.

Claim (Index 11):
A camera accessory comprising:\n a second mount detachably coupled with a first mount of a camera; a plurality of second claws each configured to engage with a different one of a plurality of first claws of the camera in an optical axis direction of the camera accessory; and a plurality of contact surfaces disposed in a circumferential direction of the second mount and configured to be used in electrical connection with a plurality of contact pins of the camera, wherein the second mount is configured to rotate relative to the first mount in the circumferential direction so that the camera accessory is coupled with the camera, wherein the plurality of the contact surfaces includes a first contact surface for detecting that the camera accessory is coupled with to the camera, a second contact surface for supplying electrical power to the camera accessory from the camera for communication, and a third contact surface for supplying electrical power to the camera accessory from the camera for driving an actuator, wherein the first, second and third contact surfaces are disposed in this order in the circumferential direction with the first and second contact surfaces being adjacent to each other and the second and third contact surfaces being adjacent to each other, and wherein, in a case where the camera accessory is shifted from a state of not being coupled with the camera to a state of being coupled with the camera, the first contact surface contacts a first contact pin, a second contact pin and a third contact pin of the plurality of contact pins, the second contact surface contacts the second contact pin and the third contact pin, and the third contact surface contacts the third contact pin.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61404
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14389865', '15626826', '15345661', '13856459', '13856555']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6846641678781471
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5924014339668198
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6754378944870143
- Mean Citation Score: 472.073454
- Max Citation Score: 523.9672
- Similarity Product: 439.4082214092255

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

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