PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15743243
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["356", "432000"]

Abstract:
A technology is provided which enables imaging to be more conveniently performed under parallel light illumination without requiring an imaging apparatus to have a function of generating parallel light. Imaging is performed with a regulation plate having a multitude of fine through holes penetrating in a vertical direction placed between an illuminator for emitting diffused light and a well plate for carrying biological specimens serving as an imaging object in wells. Inner wall surfaces of the through holes are blackened to suppress light reflectance to be low and an image with good contrast is obtained by irradiating only light incident at a small incident angle on the regulation plate to the wells.

Claim (Index 18):
The imaging method according to  claim 16 , wherein the plurality of through holes are arranged at a constant pitch P and a following equation is satisfied:\n P\u2264D \u00b7(\u00bd+ T/L ), where D denotes a maximum opening width in a cross-section of the light-guiding path, L denotes a length of the light-guiding path in the normal direction and T denotes a distance from the another principal surface of the light regulation device to an inner bottom surface of the specimen container.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 47.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53333
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13581983', '11994377', '11531343', '13643622', '13793079']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7218118093812002
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4687789653293795
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6965085249760181
- Mean Citation Score: 154.63315000000003
- Max Citation Score: 158.8985
- Similarity Product: 118.93942767161133

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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