PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942889
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "296000"]

Abstract:
An image pickup apparatus is capable of reducing saturation of a photoelectric conversion part at a time of photometry. The image pickup apparatus includes a photographing lens and an image pickup device including the following units. A photoelectric conversion part generates an electric charge by converting incident light through the lens photoelectrically and can accumulate the generated electric charge. A transfer switch transfers the electric charge to a charge accumulation part from the photoelectric conversion part. A control unit selectively sets a driving mode from among a first driving mode in which the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion part is intermittently transferred to the charge accumulation part by switching ON/OFF of the transfer switch and a second driving mode in which the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion part is continuously transferred to the charge accumulation part by keeping an ON state of the transfer switch.

Claim (Index 4):
The image pickup apparatus according to  claim 3 , wherein the controller controls the image pickup device so as to perform photometry of the reflected light from the object with emission of the light emission device after photometry of the light from the object without emission of the light emission device in a state where the image pickup device is set to the second driving mode, and calculates a light emission amount of the light emission device in main photographing based on two photometry results obtained.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13514266', '12575331', '13487478', '09678296', '10661553']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6796919010321841
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5199187883223233
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.663714589761198
- Mean Citation Score: 282.569808
- Max Citation Score: 318.23718
- Similarity Product: 218.86917018855573

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