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 16):
A control method for an image pickup apparatus, comprising:\n capturing a plurality of images having different focus positions; and controlling a depth of field when the an image is captured, wherein, if a subject area is positioned on a close distance side relative to a predetermined distance, a plurality of images is captured by using a plurality of depths of field at a focus position on the close distance side and wherein any of the depths of field when the images are captured at the focus position on the close distance side controlled to be larger than a depth of field when another image is captured.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03226
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15730493', '15709241', '15838135', '14984071', '14195951']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6298940291339435
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.494891513474494
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6163937775679985
- Mean Citation Score: 224.454014
- Max Citation Score: 240.23296
- Similarity Product: 172.614889269104

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