PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16271636
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["356", "032000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and a method for measuring surface topography of a work-piece are described. The apparatus comprises a light emitting assembly configured to emit an emitted beam of light, the emitted beam being emitted at a plurality of wavelengths and modulated at modulating frequency, the emitted beam being directed onto a surface of a work-piece. A detector is configured to receive a reflected beam of light that includes at least a portion of the emitted beam as reflected from the surface of the work-piece. The detector is further configured to generate a signal indicative of a position of the reflected beam on the detector. A signal processing unit is configured to remove noise from the signal thus generated based on the modulating frequency to obtain a processed signal. A control unit is configured to determine topography of the surface based on the processed signal.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for measuring surface topography comprising:\n a light emitting assembly configured to emit an emitted beam of light, the emitted beam being emitted at a plurality of wavelengths and being modulated with a modulating frequency, the emitted beam being directed onto a surface of a work-piece; a detector configured to:\n receive a reflected beam of light that includes at least a portion of the emitted beam as reflected from the surface of the work-piece; and \n generate a signal indicative of a position of the reflected beam on the detector; and \n a signal processing unit configured to remove noise from the signal thus generated based on the modulating frequency to obtain a processed signal; and a control unit configured to:\n determine a topography of the surface based on the processed signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.375
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15794707', '12676294', '13765014', '15722645', '14466839']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6271185941962242
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.483282391008396
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6127349738774414
- Mean Citation Score: 147.391875
- Max Citation Score: 257.86978
- Similarity Product: 256.10435462008

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

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