PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16124576
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["348", "353000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus for controlling the focus of a camera arranged to capture a sequence of frames, includes an image processor configured to: form an image characteristic for a plurality of blocks of a first frame, each block comprising one or more pixels of the first frame; and calculate an image parameter for each block by combining the image characteristics of blocks lying within a predefined zone relative to that block; and a focus controller configured to derive a measure of focus for a selected frame area of the first frame by identifying a set of blocks whose respective predefined zones, when combined, substantially represent the selected frame area, and forming a measure of focus for the selected frame area by so combining the image parameters of the set of blocks; wherein the focus controller is configured to generate a signal for controlling camera focus in dependence on the measure of focus formed for the selected frame area of the first frame.

Claim (Index 8):
Apparatus as claimed in  claim 6 , wherein the focus selector is further configured to derive the measure of focus for the selected frame area of the frame by means of a linear combination of the parameters of the set of blocks, the linear combination being performed according to the identified combination of the predefined zones of the set of blocks which represent the selected frame area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36111
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15401182', '15468396', '15468493', '15053053', '15378977']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5808826898214774
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.527462364558775
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5755406572952072
- Mean Citation Score: 196.58367600000005
- Max Citation Score: 339.3463700000001
- Similarity Product: 325.2146577432389

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