PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15913116
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "187000"]

Abstract:
An image pickup apparatus which is capable of properly adjusting flash output of a flash unit when taking a photograph. Brightness information is obtained as a result of test flash firing by the flash unit for illuminating a subject. An amount of light to be emitted for shooting by the flash unit is determined based on the brightness information. The test flash firing is controlled by selecting normal flash firing in which the flash unit fires only for a part of a time period during which electric charge is accumulated so as to perform photometry, and intermittent flash firing in which the flash unit fires throughout the time period during which the electric charge is accumulated. When flash firing with a predetermined intensity or higher is not required for the test flash firing, the intermittent flash firing is selected.

Claim (Index 5):
The image pickup apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the processor selects the second light emission in a case where a distance to the subject is shorter than a reference distance set in advance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08571
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13439712', '11987789', '11535169', '12721683', '10790189']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6412664192861107
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4806486136747274
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6252046387249725
- Mean Citation Score: 178.79660800000005
- Max Citation Score: 190.24431
- Similarity Product: 140.50703434475545

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

Dataset: test