PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16210716
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["396", "419000"]

Abstract:
A camera mounting assembly includes a base member or plate for holding a camera and a side member or plate. In an exemplary embodiment, lower slots on the base plate or side slots on the side plate are gripped by a vertical support's quick-release mechanism to mount the camera in a landscape or portrait orientation, respectively, the camera being generally centered and evenly balanced over the support in either case. The side member is detachably fastened to the base member, which modular construction permits separately timed purchase of the base member and side member as allowed by the user's budget and further permits breakdown of the assembly for ease of transport. The side member may be generally L-shaped with a lower arm length less than the side arm length, which also facilitates transport. Other components may be detachably added such as a hand grip facilitating freehand shooting with the camera.

Claim (Index 1):
A camera mounting assembly for adjustably mounting a camera on a vertical support comprising:\n (a) a base member having an upper portion configured to receive a lower surface of the camera and a lower portion, the lower portion being adapted for selective mounting on the vertical support such that the camera is positioned in a landscape orientation; (b) a side member detachably fastenable to the base member such that at least a portion of the side member extends along a side surface of the camera received by the base member, the side member forming an opposite pair of inclined edges adapted for selective engagement by a pair of jaws of an engagement mechanism such that the camera is adjustably mountable in a portrait orientation; (c) at least one of the base member and the side member including an elongate member extending within a portion of said base member to form an alignment mechanism for aligning the base member and the side member as the base member and the side member are being positioned for detachable fastening in a manner independent of either of said base member and said side member being attached to said camera; (d) a fastening element comprising a rotatable member, a threaded first opening defined in said base member, where rotation of said rotatable member within said threaded first opening enables detachably interconnecting said side member to said base member when said camera is supported by said base member, said rotatable member extends through at least a portion of said base member by rotation of said rotatable member when said base member is fastened to said side member and said rotatable member to be removed from within at least a portion of said base member by rotation of said rotatable member when said side member is said detached from said base member, wherein said rotatable member is separate from said elongate member, said base member being free from extending along a substantial portion of said side surface of said camera when said camera is supported by said base member and said side member is detached from said base member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 101.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88372
- Patent Class: 396.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15395544', '14789094', '14789061', '15048404', '14723677']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7322106578697766
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5415055897925969
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7131401510620586
- Mean Citation Score: 379.922764
- Max Citation Score: 381.0504
- Similarity Product: 378.2495554959297

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