PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868352
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["359", "200800"]

Abstract:
An optical scanning method includes detecting a resonance frequency of a tip of a fiber while sweeping a vibration frequency of the tip of the fiber over a predetermined frequency range, the tip of the fiber being supported to allow oscillation, determining a driving frequency of the tip of the fiber on the basis of the detected resonance frequency, and scanning light over an object by causing the light to be emitted from the tip of the fiber while driving and vibrating the tip of the fiber at the driving frequency.

Claim (Index 13):
An optical scanning apparatus comprising:\n a fiber configured to guide light from a light source and emit the light from a tip of the fiber, the tip being supported to allow oscillation; a driver configured to drive and vibrate the tip of the fiber; a resonance frequency detector configured to detect a resonance frequency of the tip of the fiber by detecting a phase difference between a current signal from a current detection circuit and a voltage signal from a voltage detection circuit, the current signal and the voltage signal being for the driver to drive and vibrate the tip of the fiber; and a controller configured to determine a driving frequency of the tip of the fiber on the basis of the detected resonance frequency.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2619
- Patent Class: 359.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15708781', '15362192', '15839177', '15238848', '15065969']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8137911539296785
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4818647479476702
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7805985133314777
- Mean Citation Score: 244.014436
- Max Citation Score: 275.5775
- Similarity Product: 241.7188617207109

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

Dataset: test