PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16128955
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["250", "330000"]

Abstract:
Infrared cameras can include an infrared sensor and an infrared lens assembly defining an optical axis. A camera can include an inner gear engaging the infrared lens assembly and a focus ring that engages the inner gear. The inner gear can engage the focus ring and the infrared lens assembly such that rotation of the focus ring about its central axis can cause the rotation of the infrared lens assembly about its optical axis, which may be offset from the central axis of the focus ring. The camera can include a sensor can threadably engaging the infrared lens assembly and fixed relative to the infrared sensor such that rotation of the infrared lens assembly causes the infrared lens assembly to move relative to the infrared sensor. The sensor can support other components such as a visible light lens assembly or a laser within a perimeter of the focus ring.

Claim (Index 1):
An adjustable-focus thermal imaging camera comprising\n an infrared sensor configured to receive infrared radiation from a target scene and generate infrared image data of the target scene; an infrared lens assembly comprising at least one lens defining an optical axis, the infrared lens assembly being configured to focus infrared radiation onto the infrared sensor; an inner gear engaging and substantially surrounding a portion of the infrared lens assembly; a focus ring substantially surrounding the inner gear and the infrared lens assembly and having an inner surface that engages an outer surface of the inner gear; wherein when the focus ring is rotated, the engagement between the inner surface of the focus ring and the outer surface of the inner gear causes the infrared lens assembly to rotate about its optical axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76786
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15057807', '14692279', '15043280', '13709352', '12176853']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7101172506866743
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5406608376157257
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6931716093795794
- Mean Citation Score: 260.48394399999995
- Max Citation Score: 392.36978
- Similarity Product: 385.9321639424896

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test