PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977315
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "071000"]

Abstract:
An endoscope apparatus includes: an imager having a photoelectric converter that performs a photoelectric conversion of an optical signal into a video signal, and a compressor that compresses the video signal; and a controller that changes a compression ratio in a compression of the video signal in accordance with a preset condition.

Claim (Index 11):
An imaging method using an endoscope apparatus including an imager having a photoelectric converter that performs a photoelectric conversion of an optical signal into a video signal and a compressor that compresses the video signal, wherein the imaging method includes:\n a step of determining a type of an optical adapter mounted on the imager; and a step of changing at least one of a compression ratio of the compressor and a frame rate of the photoelectric conversion in accordance with the type of the optical adapter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11542924', '14681925', '15678259', '13305861', '12333679']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6384240557327082
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4682948791563405
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6214111380750714
- Mean Citation Score: 171.94302199999996
- Max Citation Score: 177.46707
- Similarity Product: 141.32327829099657

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

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