PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16043103
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "207110"]

Abstract:
An image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit, a communication unit, and a control unit which communicates with an external device by first or second communication systems. The first system maintains communication connection even if the apparatus and device are not in a predetermined operational mode for executing image transmission processing. The second system maintains communication connection if the apparatus and device are in the predetermined mode. The control unit can automatically transmit a photographed image to an external device through the communication unit by the second communication system, and switch and control first and second functional modes for enabling and disabling a photography function, respectively. Where an image is photographed in the first mode, the control unit records the image as a target for automatic transmission. If the transmission target image is recorded, automatic transmission is not started during the first mode, and started during the second mode.

Claim (Index 10):
A communication control method executed by way of an image capture apparatus provided with a communication function and comprising an image capture unit including an image sensor, a communication unit including a communication circuit, and a control unit including a processor, the communication control method comprising the control unit:\n communicating with an external device by a first communication system or a second communication system, wherein the first communication system maintains communication connection even if the image capture apparatus and the external device are not in a predetermined operational mode for allowing the communication unit to execute image transmission processing, and wherein the second communication system maintains communication connection with the external device on condition of being in the predetermined operation mode for allowing the communication unit to execute image transmission processing; performing automatic transmission for automatically transmitting an image photographed with the image capture unit to an external device through the communication unit by the second communication system; switching and controlling a first functional mode for enabling a photography function, and a second functional mode for disabling the photography function and enabling a communication function in relation to image transmission; in a case in which an image is photographed in the first functional mode, recording the photographed image as a transmission target image that is targeted for the automatic transmission; and even if the transmission target image is recorded, controlling the communication unit not to start automatic transmission of the transmission target image to the external device during the first functional mode, and controlling the communication unit to start automatic transmission of the transmission target image to the external device during the second functional mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54688
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15340523', '15010484', '15009756', '11600139', '11835277']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6101215836588484
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5221670948462204
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6013261347775856
- Mean Citation Score: 208.674866
- Max Citation Score: 340.774
- Similarity Product: 272.4642256904841

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

Dataset: test