PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15743243
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["356", "432000"]

Abstract:
A technology is provided which enables imaging to be more conveniently performed under parallel light illumination without requiring an imaging apparatus to have a function of generating parallel light. Imaging is performed with a regulation plate having a multitude of fine through holes penetrating in a vertical direction placed between an illuminator for emitting diffused light and a well plate for carrying biological specimens serving as an imaging object in wells. Inner wall surfaces of the through holes are blackened to suppress light reflectance to be low and an image with good contrast is obtained by irradiating only light incident at a small incident angle on the regulation plate to the wells.

Claim (Index 15):
An imaging method, comprising:\n supporting horizontally a specimen container carrying biological specimens; arranging an illumination light source above the specimen container, a light regulation device between the illumination light source and the specimen container and an imager below the specimen container; and imaging the biological specimens by causing light from the illumination light source to be incident on the biological specimens via the light regulation device and receiving light transmitted downward from the specimen container by the imager, wherein: the light regulation device includes a plate member in a form of a flat plate placeable on the specimen container; a plurality of through holes penetrating from one principal surface side to another principal surface side of the plate member are two-dimensionally and proximately arranged along the one principal surface of the plate member; each through hole is a light-guiding path having a uniform cross-sectional shape along a normal direction to the one principal surface; and a side wall surface of each through hole has a light absorbing property.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53333
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13581983', '11994377', '11531343', '13643622', '13793079']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6988706531624557
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4596066695125282
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6749442547974629
- Mean Citation Score: 154.63315000000003
- Max Citation Score: 158.8985
- Similarity Product: 125.58566941934824

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

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