PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990639
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["362", "019000"]

Abstract:
An illuminator device includes a diffuser and a light collecting and concentrating element. The diffuser receives light rays from a light source as input and distributes light rays as output. The light collecting and concentrating element includes an input optical aperture formed on a base surface, an output optical aperture formed on an opposing surface to the base surface, and at least two sidewalls. The sidewalls extend substantially between the input and output optical apertures. The diffuser optically attaches to the base surface such that light rays from the diffuser output couple into the light collecting and concentrating element through the input optical aperture.

Claim (Index 24):
An illuminator device, comprising:\n a light source for transmitting light rays, the light source including an output surface, having an associated width, from which the light rays are transmitted; and a light collecting and concentrating element including:\n an input optical aperture having a diffuser optically attached thereto, the input optical aperture formed on a base surface having an associated width that is greater than or equal to the width of the output surface, \n an output aperture formed on an opposing surface to the base surface, and \n at least two tapered sidewall surfaces extending substantially between the input and output apertures, \n wherein the diffuser receives light rays from the light source and distributes light rays as input to the input optical aperture at a range of angles, and wherein a subset of the light rays input to the input optical aperture, corresponding to a sub-range of the range of angles, are trapped between the planar tapered sidewall surfaces by total internal reflection, so as to produce a spatially uniform output optical beam with narrow angular distribution at the output optical aperture.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.3617
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['09719728', '14794667', '15872886', '15784378', '10319800']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8664703528971731
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4734285779887714
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.827166175406333
- Mean Citation Score: 189.35843400000005
- Max Citation Score: 192.75801
- Similarity Product: 165.82732709826885

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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