PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15915902
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["701", "023000"]

Abstract:
To compensate for the effects of vibration on a lidar system in a vehicle, a vibration sensor within the lidar system and/or the vehicle detects vibration, such as a gyroscope, accelerometer, inertial measurement unit (IMU), etc. The detected vibration is then used to generate a compensation signal. The compensation signal is combined with a drive signal that drives a scanner configured to direct light pulses across a field of regard. The combined signal is provided to the scanner, and accordingly, the light pulses are accurately directed across the field of regard.

Claim (Index 19):
An autonomous vehicle comprising:\n an inertial measurement unit (IMU) configured to provide a vibration signal corresponding to an amount of vibration at the autonomous vehicle; one or more components configured to maneuver the autonomous vehicle; a lidar system configured to detect objects within a threshold distance of the autonomous vehicle, the lidar system including:\n a light source configured to emit light pulses; \n a scanner configured to scan a field of regard of the lidar system; \n a lidar controller configured to drive the scanner to scan the light pulses across the field of regard, including:\n generate a drive signal for directing the light pulses across the field of regard; \n receive from the IMU the vibration signal corresponding to the amount of vibration at the autonomous vehicle; \n generate a compensation signal that reduces effects of vibration on the scanner based on the amount of vibration; \n combine the drive signal for the scanner with the compensation signal; and \n provide the combined signal to the scanner; and \n \n a detector configured to detect light from some of the light pulses scattered by one or more remote targets to generate respective pixels corresponding to a point cloud representing the field of regard; and \n a vehicle controller configured to provide control signals to the one or more components to maneuver the autonomous vehicle in accordance with data from the point cloud.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7931
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15822679', '15822677', '15727315', '15876662', '15876669']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4870257054427612
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5308858065498597
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4914117155534711
- Mean Citation Score: 277.82006599999994
- Max Citation Score: 297.41794
- Similarity Product: 264.83250758664843

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