PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15897683
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "347000"]

Abstract:
An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit configured to capture a plurality of images having different focus positions, and a depth of field control unit configured to control a depth of field when the image pickup unit captures an image, wherein, if it is determined that a plurality of subject areas satisfies a predetermined condition based on a distance for each subject area, a depth of field when the image pickup unit captures one of the plurality of images is increased, in comparison with a case where the predetermined condition is not satisfied. The predetermined condition includes a difference of any two in the plurality of subject areas being at a distance greater than a predetermine distance.

Claim (Index 13):
The image pickup apparatus according to  claim 12 , wherein the predetermined distance is a distance with which predetermined resolution cannot be obtained by using a depth of field that is same as the depth of field of the optical system set at another focus position when the image sensor captures an image at the focus position on the close distance side.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03226
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15730493', '15709241', '15838135', '14984071', '14195951']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6557483309824537
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.504017221591071
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6405752200433155
- Mean Citation Score: 224.454014
- Max Citation Score: 240.23296
- Similarity Product: 156.58055870971685

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