PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16186586
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["348", "138000"]

Abstract:
An imaging system with a light source controls the sensitivity of pixels to light, by performing both superpixel modulation and curtain modulation. The superpixel modulation may facilitate rapid data acquisition. The curtain modulation may suppress the effect of ambient light. In superpixel modulation, each pixel set may be modulated by a separate superpixel modulation signal that causes sensitivity of the pixel set to light to vary over time, and each superpixel may include a pixel from each pixel set. The curtain modulation may cause pixels in only a small region of the photodetector to be sensitive to light. The curtain modulation may cause the small region to move to track the dot of light, by changing which pixels are in the region. This invention may be used for 3D scanning.

Claim (Index 14):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein:\n (a) the illumination system includes a light source; (b) the light source and the photodetector are each part of a camera; and (c) the apparatus is configured in such a way that while the first region is located at each respective position in the set of positions, the curtain modulation signals cause the first region to overlap a region of the photodetector that is then receiving light that (i) travels directly from the light source to the scene and (ii) then reflects directly from the scene to the camera.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16923
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16186541', '15449099', '15871444', '15115270', '15431713']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6721166080796293
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6615482654586047
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6710597738175268
- Mean Citation Score: 456.451882
- Max Citation Score: 656.3905599999998
- Similarity Product: 611.5572401684283

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

Dataset: test