PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909072
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "371000"]

Abstract:
An image pickup apparatus which is capable of improving ease of operation for a photographer in bounce flash photography. The image pickup apparatus is able to be equipped with an illumination apparatus having a light emitter and has an operating portion for causing light from the light emitter to be reflected by a reflector to illuminate a subject. It is judged whether or not a first mode in which in response to operation on the operating portion, light from the light emitter to be reflected by the reflector to illuminate the subject is set as an operating mode of the illumination apparatus. According to whether or not the illumination apparatus is placed in the first mode, different types of control are provided when the operating portion is operated.

Claim (Index 7):
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a control method for an image pickup apparatus which is able to be equipped with an illumination apparatus having a light-emitter and has an operating portion for causing light from the light-emitter to be reflected by a reflector to illuminate a subject, the control method comprising:\n a judgment step of judging whether or not a first mode in which in response to an operation on the operating portion, light from the light-emitter to be reflected by the reflector to illuminate the subject is set as an operating mode of the illumination apparatus; and a control step of, according to whether or not it is judged in the judgment step that the illumination apparatus is placed in the first mode, providing different types of control.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12698
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15412186', '15608559', '15475569', '15787981', '14819168']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6107588499494072
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4588324634487016
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5955662112993367
- Mean Citation Score: 170.89943800000003
- Max Citation Score: 189.48074
- Similarity Product: 166.21132067460178

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