PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871050
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["356", "497000"]

Abstract:
In interferometer imaging signal acquisition using a movable optical beam to sample a target with specular or non specular reflecting surfaces or internal features, beam moving during interferometer signal acquisition can generate unwanted phase error due to shifting speckle field. Examples include coherent LIDAR, Interferometry Doppler sensing and optical coherence tomography. During an interferometer signal acquisition period, an interferometer sensing beam can be substantially stationary, and active step-scanning can be synchronized with interferometer signal acquisition cycles. For interferometers using repetitive chirping lasers, passive dispersive counter-scan mechanisms can be used to assist step-scanning operation.

Claim (Index 17):
The apparatus of  claim 14  further comprises:\n a second chirped laser component, simultaneously and repetitively chirping and retting wavelength along with the first chirped laser component, with opposite chirping directions between the two laser components; \n a second beamsplitter splitting the second chirped laser component, with the output beams comprising a second reference laser beam and a second sensing laser beam; \n a second dispersive component dispersing the second sensing laser beam, creating a second reciprocating dispersive beam moving; \n a second beam combining device merging at least a portion of the second sensing laser beam into the first sensing laser beam, and substantially overlapping the second reciprocating dispersive beam moving with the first reciprocating dispersive beam moving, and directing the merged sensing laser beam to wherein said beam scanning device; \n a second receiving aperture collecting a second feedback beam from the target location; \n a third beam combining device combining at least a portion of the second reference beam and at least a portion of the second feedback beam to form a second interferometer signal;

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54545
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11608683', '11354382', '15343918', '12809776', '12210656']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6941042961679547
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4681767123312452
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6715115377842837
- Mean Citation Score: 189.838706
- Max Citation Score: 195.22594
- Similarity Product: 159.53895333683013

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