PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944729
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["356", "928000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for performing optical distance measurement are provided. In one aspect, a system for measuring a distance to an object comprises a light emitter configured to emit an outbound light pulse, and a light sensor configured to receive a returning light pulse reflected from the object and output an analog pulse signal representing the returning light pulse. The system also comprises a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) coupled to the light sensor. The FPGA is configured to convert the analog pulse signal to a plurality of digital signal values, and generate a plurality of time measurements corresponding to the plurality of digital signal values. The system also comprises a controller configured to calculate the distance to the object based on the plurality of digital signal values and the plurality of time measurements.

Claim (Index 47):
The method of  claim 17 wherein converting the analog pulse signal to the plurality of digital signal values includes (1) comparing the analog pulse value to a plurality of threshold values and (2) generating the plurality of digital signal values based on the comparison.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34426
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15944561', '15167945', '15673234', '13784329', '12493949']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.718673516586452
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4805009226939796
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6948562571972047
- Mean Citation Score: 168.89518400000003
- Max Citation Score: 181.18538
- Similarity Product: 131.0804323886037

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

Dataset: test