PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15992020
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["356", "003000"]

Abstract:
A LIDAR includes multiple light sources and a Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) device for controllably redirecting beams from each of the multiple light sources. The same or a different LCOS device can be used to controllably redirect reflected light to each of several corresponding light detectors. The LCOS device can be adjusted on a slower time scale while the light sources can be sequentially activated on a faster time scale. The LCOS device provides for fine steering control of LIDAR beams. The use of multiple light sources and detectors allows for a higher LIDAR scan rate.

Claim (Index 11):
The apparatus of  claim 9 , further comprising a beam splitter configured to pass the light from the plurality of light sources toward the LCOS device and to redirect the reflected light from the LCOS device toward the plurality of light detectors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89091
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14671085', '15482722', '15396476', '14050036', '15809666']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7074606075080483
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4768737823379135
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6844019249910348
- Mean Citation Score: 209.97704
- Max Citation Score: 216.93024
- Similarity Product: 174.86533536420822

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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