PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885291
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["359", "823000"]

Abstract:
A focus control apparatus includes a controller configured to provide a focus control that holds an object distance on which an image capturing optical system is focused that includes a magnification varying lens and a focus lens, and a calculator configured to calculate a defocus amount by using information on lens sensitivity that represents a relationship between a unit moving amount of the magnification varying lens and a moving amount of an image plane in the image capturing optical system, and information on error amounts of stop positions of the magnification varying lens and that of the focus lens. The controller moves the focus lens in a moving range limited based on the defocus amount.

Claim (Index 26):
A focus control method comprising the steps of:\n providing a focus control that holds an object distance on which an image capturing optical system is focused that includes a focus lens; and detecting a temperature of the image capturing optical system, wherein the focus control moves the focus lens in a moving range limited based on a change amount of the temperature in the focus control when the change amount of the temperature from reference temperature is higher than a predetermined thermal change amount.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16364
- Patent Class: 359.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13475427', '15673518', '15812489', '15471245', '15655136']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8119931681101431
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4842496507590171
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7792188163750304
- Mean Citation Score: 236.208446
- Max Citation Score: 238.3089
- Similarity Product: 168.65354140162464

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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