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 10):
The image pickup apparatus according to  claim 9 , wherein the image sensor has a structure where a plurality of photoelectric conversion units exist corresponding to one micro lens, and outputs the pupil divided images.

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): 0.6594980417582396
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4858006286773784
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6421283004501535
- Mean Citation Score: 224.454014
- Max Citation Score: 240.23296
- Similarity Product: 199.3675213142395

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