PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949757
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["396", "062000"]

Abstract:
An image pickup apparatus which is capable of, even when a flash band appears during a zooming operation, properly compensating for the flash band to generate a post-compensation image having no different levels of luminance. A lens unit has a zoom function. Image information generated based on image signals output from an image pickup device, which sequentially starts exposure and sequentially reads out signals for each row of pixels, is held in a memory unit. Based on the image information, the flash band caused by an external flash and extending across a plurality of frames is detected, and frames in which the flash band was detected are corrected to obtain an image having no different levels of luminance. The frames are corrected according to a calculated zoom change ratio of the lens unit when the zoom change ratio does not fall inside a first range determined in advance.

Claim (Index 5):
The image pickup apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein the correction unit corrects the frames according to the zoom change ratio when values of the variations in level difference between the two frames are equal to or greater than a value determined in advance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87059
- Patent Class: 396.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15614765', '15613406', '15615993', '15457535', '15457496']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6973899391306823
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5274251104143054
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6803934562590446
- Mean Citation Score: 249.12403
- Max Citation Score: 340.6819799999999
- Similarity Product: 319.65021006001706

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