PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871444
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["348", "046000"]

Abstract:
In illustrative implementations, a set of separate modulation signals simultaneously modulates a plurality of pixels in a superpixel by a set of separate modulation signals, such that each pixel in the superpixel is modulated by a modulation signal that causes sensitivity of the pixel to vary over time. Each superpixel comprises multiple pixels. In some implementations, the sensitivity of a pixel to incident light is controlled by storage modulation or by light modulation. In some implementations, this invention is used for 3D scanning, i.e., for detection of the 3D position of points in a scene.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising modulating, by a set of signals, a group of imaging pixels, wherein:\n (a) the modulating comprises, for each respective imaging pixel, modulating sensitivity of the respective imaging pixel to light incident on the respective imaging pixel, in such a way that the sensitivity varies over time during the modulating; (b) the group of imaging pixels consists of pixel sets, each imaging pixel being a member of one or more of the pixel sets; (c) the imaging pixels are located in imaging superpixels; (d) each imaging superpixel includes at least one imaging pixel from each of the pixel sets; (e) each respective signal, in the set of signals, modulates only one pixel set and thus modulates at least one imaging pixel in each of the imaging superpixels; and (f) each signal, in the set of signals, is different than the other signals in the set of signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01923
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15115270', '15449099', '13663290', '14154817', '15865002']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5982195796483307
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.591645684809774
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5975621901644751
- Mean Citation Score: 319.632318
- Max Citation Score: 495.8001
- Similarity Product: 451.47938652910005

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