PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15948264
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "068000"]

Abstract:
An endoscope apparatus includes an imaging element, a video signal generating circuit, an illuminator, a light quantity detector, and one or more controllers. An imaging area in which a plurality of pixels are disposed includes a scanning area. The one or more controllers control the imaging element such that at least parts of exposure periods of the pixels disposed in at least a part of the scanning area overlap each other, in a case in which the light quantity is less than a predetermined quantity. The one or more controllers control the illuminator such that the light source is turned on in a period in which at least parts of the exposure periods of the pixels disposed in at least a part of the scanning area overlap each other, in a case in which the light quantity is less than the predetermined quantity.

Claim (Index 3):
The endoscope apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the light quantity detector is a device disposed independently from the imaging element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78182
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13708149', '14472606', '11585080', '13182052', '15830237']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6012960760998248
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4854865579278759
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.58971512428263
- Mean Citation Score: 190.15418
- Max Citation Score: 197.26877
- Similarity Product: 151.84307336300492

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

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