PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16124576
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["348", "353000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus for controlling the focus of a camera arranged to capture a sequence of frames, includes an image processor configured to: form an image characteristic for a plurality of blocks of a first frame, each block comprising one or more pixels of the first frame; and calculate an image parameter for each block by combining the image characteristics of blocks lying within a predefined zone relative to that block; and a focus controller configured to derive a measure of focus for a selected frame area of the first frame by identifying a set of blocks whose respective predefined zones, when combined, substantially represent the selected frame area, and forming a measure of focus for the selected frame area by so combining the image parameters of the set of blocks; wherein the focus controller is configured to generate a signal for controlling camera focus in dependence on the measure of focus formed for the selected frame area of the first frame.

Claim (Index 14):
The method as claimed in  claim 11 , the forming of the characteristic for each block being performed in dependence on the values of a plurality of pixels of the block or adjacent to the block in the frame, and the calculation of the parameter for each block comprising summing the characteristic of that block with the characteristics of other blocks of the plurality of blocks lying within the predefined zone relative to that block.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36111
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15401182', '15468396', '15468493', '15053053', '15378977']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5517654961729729
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5263107164763471
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5492200182033103
- Mean Citation Score: 196.58367600000005
- Max Citation Score: 339.3463700000001
- Similarity Product: 309.8851250595725

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