PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16134000
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for combining return signals from multiple channels of a LIDAR measurement system are described herein. In one aspect, the outputs of multiple receive channels are electrically coupled before input to a single channel of an analog to digital converter. In another aspect, a DC offset voltage is provided at the output of each transimpedance amplifier of each receive channel to improve measured signal quality. In another aspect, a bias voltage supplied to each photodetector of each receive channel is adjusted based on measured temperature to save power and improve measurement consistency. In another aspect, a bias voltage supplied to each illumination source of each transmit channel is adjusted based on measured temperature. In another aspect, a multiplexer is employed to multiplex multiple sets of output signals of corresponding sets of receive channels before analog to digital conversion.

Claim (Index 4):
The LIDAR measurement system of  claim 3 , further comprising:\n a temperature sensor disposed in close proximity to the illumination sources and illumination drivers of the first plurality of LIDAR measurement channels; and a master controller electrically coupled to the temperature sensor and each illumination bias power supply associated with each of the first plurality of LIDAR measurement channels, wherein the master controller receives an indication of a transmit subsystem temperature from the temperature sensor and generates the command signal indicative of the desired amount of electrical bias power associated with each of the first plurality of LIDAR measurement channels based at least in part on the measured transmit subsystem temperature.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12676
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15974527', '15941302', '15926095', '15610975', '15339790']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7229944345864577
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.502023517825405
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7008973429103524
- Mean Citation Score: 260.760878
- Max Citation Score: 277.3596
- Similarity Product: 206.7831454154492

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