PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968147
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "362000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for processing images includes an image sensor to output a long exposure image frame based upon a first exposure time and at least two short exposure image frames having a single, second exposure time different from the first exposure time; a mode determination unit to determine the second exposure time based on the number of saturated pixels in the image frame output from the image sensor; a shutter controller to control the exposure time of each frame of the image sensor based on an output signal from the mode detection unit; and an image processing unit to fuse the long exposure image frame and the at least two short exposure image frames to output a wide dynamic range (WDR) image. Methods for processing WDR images are also disclosed.

Claim (Index 2):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the image processor comprises:\n a motion detector to compare a predetermined region of the image frame in the long exposure image frame and each of the at least two short exposure image frames, and detect a change in motion of an object in the image frames; a frame selector to select either the long exposure image frame or the short exposure image frame based upon which image frame has least an amount of change in motion of the object in the predetermined region of the image frame; and a fusing controller to fuse all of the selected image frame regions and output a wide dynamic range (WDR) image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2623
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14640191', '13953971', '13935609', '15183495', '14073340']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6063374216715837
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4880271598879447
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5945063954932198
- Mean Citation Score: 195.495098
- Max Citation Score: 206.7406
- Similarity Product: 159.7185322067499

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