PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16255252
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["348", "375000"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides the following camera. A first camera-side contact pin is a pin corresponding to detection of a signal change caused by coupling of a camera accessory. A second camera-side contact pin is a pin corresponding to supply of power for communication with the coupled camera accessory. A third camera-side contact pin is a pin corresponding to supply of a driving force to an actuator of the camera accessory. The first, second, and third camera-side contact pins are disposed in such a manner that, when a camera-side mount shifts from a first state to a second state, the third camera-side contact pin contacts first and second accessory-side contact surfaces, the second camera-side contact pin contacts the first accessory-side contact surface, and the first camera-side contact pin does not contact the second and third accessory-side contact surfaces.

Claim (Index 1):
A camera comprising:\n a first mount detachably coupled with a second mount of a camera accessory; a plurality of first claws each being configured to engage with a different one of a plurality of second claws of the camera accessory in an optical axis direction of the camera accessory; and a plurality of contact pins disposed in a circumferential direction of the first mount and configured to be used in electrical connection with a plurality of contact surfaces of the camera accessory, wherein the first mount is configured to rotate relative to the second mount in the circumferential direction so that the camera accessory is coupled with the camera, wherein the plurality of contact pins includes a first contact pin for detecting that the camera accessory is coupled with the camera, a second contact pin for enabling the camera to supply electrical power to the coupled camera accessory for communication, and a third contact pin for enabling the camera to supply electrical power to the coupled camera accessory for driving an actuator of the camera accessory, wherein the first, second and third contact pins are disposed in this order in the circumferential direction, with the first and second contact pins being adjacent to each other and the second and third contact pins being adjacent to each other, and wherein, in a case where the camera accessory is shifted from a state of not being coupled with the camera to a state of being coupled with the camera, the third contact pin contacts a total of three contact surfaces of the plurality of contact surfaces, the second contact pin contacts a total of two contact surfaces of the plurality of contact surfaces, and the first contact pin contacts a total of one contact surface of the plurality of contact surfaces.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61404
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14389865', '15626826', '15345661', '13856459', '13856555']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6852804594236007
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5907087004234446
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6758232835235851
- Mean Citation Score: 472.073454
- Max Citation Score: 523.9672
- Similarity Product: 431.6399150708199

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