PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16157870
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["348", "302000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for imaging an object has a metering image sensor that comprises a plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels is matrix-arrayed along vertical and horizontal directions. The apparatus also has an image sensor driver that drives the metering image sensor, which reads image-pixel signals of neighboring pixels among the plurality of pixels while mixing the image-pixel signals. The apparatus also has a pixel addition setting processor that sets a number of pixel addition of the metering image sensor with respect to at least one of at least one row and at least one column. The pixel addition setting processor sets different numbers of pixel addition to different pixel areas. The apparatus also has an exposure controller that controls an exposure of the metering image sensor and the photography image sensor.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for imaging an object, comprising:\n a metering image sensor that comprises a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels being matrix-arrayed along vertical and horizontal directions; a photography image sensor; an image sensor driver that drives the metering image sensor, the image sensor driver configured to read image-pixel signals of neighboring pixels among the plurality of pixels while mixing the image-pixel signals; a pixel addition setting processor that sets a number of pixel addition of the metering image sensor with respect to at least one of at least one row and at least one column, the pixel addition setting processor configured to set different numbers of pixel addition to different pixel areas; and an exposure controller that controls an exposure of the metering image sensor and the photography image sensor, wherein the pixel addition setting processor is configured to switch the number of pixel addition, wherein the image sensor driver is configured to read the image-pixel signals in response to the set number of pixel addition, wherein the exposure controller is configured to set an exposure value of the photography image sensor based on a brightness of an object image that is detected by the metering image sensor, and wherein the pixel addition setting is determined based on a detected luminance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35593
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14528167', '15750547', '12232796', '14060592', '13432481']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6049313088100715
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5361769001147133
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5980558679405357
- Mean Citation Score: 205.986642
- Max Citation Score: 331.63583
- Similarity Product: 290.4477318250061

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