PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15920463
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["348", "349000"]

Abstract:
Provided are an imaging apparatus and an imaging method capable of relatively accurately focusing on a main object in a relatively short time. A movement region ( 40 ) of a main object OA is imaged in a camera apparatus A and a different camera apparatus B. In the camera apparatus A, the main object OA is recognized from a captured image. Data indicating the position of the main object OA, transmitted from the camera apparatus B, is received in the camera apparatus A, and a focusing target range is set at the front and back of the position of the main object OA. A movement of a focus lens of the camera apparatus A is limited so as to focus on the focusing target range.

Claim (Index 1):
An imaging apparatus comprising:\n a position specification information acquisition unit that acquires position specification information for specifying the position of a main object in a real space; an imaging unit that images an imaging range to obtain a captured image; a main object recognition unit that recognizes the main object in the captured image obtained by the imaging unit; a focusing control unit that sets a range defined at the front and back of the position specified by the position specification information acquired in the position specification information acquisition unit as a focusing target range in which imaging is performed in a state of focusing on an object that is present within the range to limit a movement of a focus lens; a focus unit that drives the focus lens under the control of the focusing control unit; an imaging control unit that focuses a main object image of the main object recognized by the main object recognition unit on a light receiving surface using the focus lens driven by the focus unit to cause the imaging unit to perform imaging; wherein in a case where the main object is imaged by a first position detection imaging apparatus, first distance data indicating a distance from the first position detection imaging apparatus to the main object and first angle data indicating an angle formed by the first position detection imaging apparatus and the main object are transmitted by the first position detection imaging apparatus; and the position specification information acquisition unit includes a first reception unit that receives the first distance data and the first angle data transmitted by the first position detection imaging apparatus, and a first calculation unit that calculates position information for specifying the position of the main object on the basis of the first distance data and the first angle data received by the first reception unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41071
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11299211', '15010760', '13911769', '15428378', '15614216']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6310527440799021
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.480943443841357
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6160418140560476
- Mean Citation Score: 219.348116
- Max Citation Score: 223.06654
- Similarity Product: 177.80369485001563

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