PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16041880
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "254000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is an image processing apparatus and a control method thereof that can correct the brightness of a pixel in an image. Reflection characteristics of environment light when the image is captured are estimated by applying smoothing to the image. The brightness of the pixel is corrected by computing a correction value for correcting the brightness of the pixel based on the reflection characteristics of the environment light and adding the correction value to the pixel. The brightness can be corrected while suppressing an amplification of noise and a loss of details of a subject.

Claim (Index 30):
An image processing apparatus comprising:\n a processor; a memory that stores a program executable by the processor, wherein the program, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to function as units comprising: a correcting unit configured to correct the brightness of a first area in a target image; and a determining unit configured to determine a second area, in the target image, that is referred to when the correcting unit corrects the brightness of the first area, wherein the correcting unit causes color information of the first area to approach color information of the second area by adding a correction signal based on the color information of the second area to a color signal of the first area when correcting the brightness of the first area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94118
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15124529', '15066715', '15146265', '15315412', '12200705']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5781951292053569
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5332395718222825
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5736995734670495
- Mean Citation Score: 237.336418
- Max Citation Score: 353.631
- Similarity Product: 284.0754580421448

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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