PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16179314
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["356", "620000"]

Abstract:
A tracker includes a retro-follow mode that causes a beam of light from the tracker to follow a retroreflector while locked onto the retroreflector with the beam of light turned on or, alternatively, using target cameras with the beam of light turned off.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n for a tracker in a retro-follow mode, the tracker configured to emit and receive a beam of light: determining whether the beam of light emitted along an optical axis of the tracker is detected by a position detector of the tracker; when the beam of light is detected by the position detector, tracking on the retroreflector by causing the beam of light to move with the tracker to a retrace point of the position detector; and when the beam of light is not detected by the position detector, turning off the beam of light, attempting to identify a retroreflector in first images captured by one or more cameras of the tracker, and steering the optical axis toward the identified retroreflector, continuing until a retroreflector acquisition criterion has been met by the first images, thereafter turning on the beam of light.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53333
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14531113', '15856717', '13803479', '15055699', '13851221']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7382990218652362
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5011050069061747
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7145796203693301
- Mean Citation Score: 281.9960020000001
- Max Citation Score: 286.1085
- Similarity Product: 222.22126208156345

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

Dataset: test