PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870920
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["356", "451000"]

Abstract:
A spectral imaging system includes an autocorrelator to generate different autocorrelations when the moving reflector in the autocorrelator is at different positions so as to reconstruct spectral images. The system also includes a position measurement system to measure the actual positions of the moving reflector when autocorrelations are taken. These actual locations, instead of the desired locations in conventional methods, are then used to reconstruct the spectral image. This approach can address the misalignment of the moving reflector from its desired location (due to external disturbances, slow actuator dynamics, and other factors) in conventional spectral imaging techniques and allow the development of high-resolution, high-stability, portable imaging spectrometers for the general public.

Claim (Index 11):
A method of spectral imaging, the method comprising:\n splitting an input light beam reflected or scattered from a sample with a beam splitter into a first portion and a second portion; reflecting the first portion of the input light beam with a first reflector; reflecting the second portion of the input light beam with a second reflector, the second reflector being at a first position in a plurality of positions along a propagation direction of the second portion of the input light beam; performing measurement of the first position of the second reflector; detecting a first interference pattern created by the first portion of the input light beam and the second portion of the input light beam when the second reflector is at the first position; moving the second reflector to a second position in the plurality of positions along the propagation direction of the second portion of the input light beam; performing measurement of the second position of the second reflector; detecting a second interference pattern created by the first portion of the input light beam and the second portion of the input light beam when the second reflector is at the second position; generating a spectral image of the sample based at least in part on the measurement of the first position, the measurement of the second position, the first interference pattern, and the second interference pattern.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68493
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14933666', '11253242', '15300768', '10861697', '10860094']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7113928606782021
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4666779119260726
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6869213658029891
- Mean Citation Score: 203.351192
- Max Citation Score: 208.82062
- Similarity Product: 179.9242485126173

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

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