PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15892710
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "220100"]

Abstract:
An image capturing apparatus cascade-connects an image processing circuit of a preceding stage and an image processing circuit of a succeeding stage and switches, in accordance with an image processing load, the method of processing so as to process image data from an image capturing unit by an image processing circuit of the preceding stage or the succeeding stage on a frame-by-frame basis, or so as to process the image data alternately by the image processing circuits of the preceding stage and the succeeding stage on a frame-by-frame basis, or so as to process half of a frame by the image processing circuit of the preceding stage and process the remaining half of the frame by the image processing circuit of the succeeding stage.

Claim (Index 8):
An image capturing apparatus comprising:\n an image capturing unit; a first image processing circuit to which image data output from the image capturing unit is input; and a second image processing circuit that is cascade-connected to the first image processing circuit, wherein the first image processing circuit when processing the image data from the image capturing unit as a moving image, processes, if a data rate of moving image data to be processed exceeds a predetermined data rate, a first portion of each frame of the image data from the image capturing apparatus by the first image processing circuit and transfers a second portion to the second image processing circuit without processing the second portion by the first image processing circuit, and the first image processing circuit processes, if the data rate of the moving image data to be processed does not exceed the predetermined data rate, the image data of each frame by the first image processing circuit or transfers the image data from the image capturing unit to the second image processing circuit without processing the image data by the first image processing circuit, when the image data from the image capturing unit is to be processed as a still image, the image data of one frame of every other frame from the image capturing unit is processed by the first image processing circuit and the image data of a frame other than the one frame is transferred to the second image processing circuit, the image data processed by the first image processing circuit is transferred to the second image processing circuit, and the second image processing circuit processes unprocessed image data input from the first image processing unit and combines the processed unprocessed image data input from the first image processing unit with the processed image data input from the second image processing circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.225
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15258601', '12447480', '12054815', '15793117', '14104111']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5567344546056385
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4814014365212595
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5492011527972006
- Mean Citation Score: 159.72474200000005
- Max Citation Score: 184.80367
- Similarity Product: 139.9901335675049

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

Dataset: test