PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055548
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["348", "211100"]

Abstract:
The image-capturing apparatus communicates with an accessory apparatus using a clock/communication request channel and first and second data communication channels. The camera controller switches its communication method between a first communication method in which data communication is performed while a clock signal is alternately switched between first and second levels and a second communication method in which data communication is performed in response to a communication request from the camera controller to the accessory apparatus, which is output by switching a signal level of the clock/communication request channel from the first level to the second level. The camera controller, in response to detecting a communication error in the first and second communication methods, transmits to the accessory apparatus through the second data communication channel a specific signal for restoring the communication while keeping the signal level of the clock/communication request channel at the first level.

Claim (Index 19):
An image-capturing apparatus according to  claim 18 , wherein the camera control unit detects, in the second communication method, the communication error based on at least one of parity information or stop bit included in the accessory data received via the third communication channel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15652652', '15652794', '15472362', '15468240', '15472338']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6990888810251892
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5388515517096067
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.683065148093631
- Mean Citation Score: 340.014902
- Max Citation Score: 388.76178
- Similarity Product: 305.759624891442

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