PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942889
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "296000"]

Abstract:
An image pickup apparatus is capable of reducing saturation of a photoelectric conversion part at a time of photometry. The image pickup apparatus includes a photographing lens and an image pickup device including the following units. A photoelectric conversion part generates an electric charge by converting incident light through the lens photoelectrically and can accumulate the generated electric charge. A transfer switch transfers the electric charge to a charge accumulation part from the photoelectric conversion part. A control unit selectively sets a driving mode from among a first driving mode in which the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion part is intermittently transferred to the charge accumulation part by switching ON/OFF of the transfer switch and a second driving mode in which the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion part is continuously transferred to the charge accumulation part by keeping an ON state of the transfer switch.

Claim (Index 9):
A control method for an image pickup device that includes a photoelectric conversion part that generates an electric charge by converting incident light photoelectrically and is able to accumulate the generated electric charge, a charge accumulation part that holds the electric charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion part, and a transfer switch that transfers the electric charge to the charge accumulation part from the photoelectric conversion part, the control method comprising:\n setting a driving mode from among a first driving mode and a second driving mode selectively; transferring the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion part to the charge accumulation part intermittently by switching ON and OFF of the transfer switch in the first driving mode; and transferring the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion part to the charge accumulation part continuously by keeping an ON state of the transfer switch in the second driving mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13514266', '12575331', '13487478', '09678296', '10661553']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6539101151395108
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5097640420465525
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6394955078302149
- Mean Citation Score: 282.569808
- Max Citation Score: 318.23718
- Similarity Product: 278.9008622736025

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

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