PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16027786
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "340000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are described that relate to an optical system including an image sensor optically-coupled to at least one nanophotonic element. The image sensor may include a plurality of superpixels. Each respective superpixel of the plurality of superpixels may include at least a respective first pixel and a respective second pixel. The at least one nanophotonic element may have an optical phase transfer function and may include a two-dimensional arrangement of sub-wavelength regions of a first material interspersed within a second material, the first material having a first index of refraction and the second material having a second index of refraction. The nanophotonic element is configured to direct light toward individual superpixels in the plurality of superpixels, and to direct light toward the first or second pixel in each individual superpixel based on a wavelength dependence or a polarization dependence of the optical phase transfer function.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical system comprising:\n an image sensor comprising a plurality of superpixels, wherein each respective superpixel of the plurality of superpixels comprises at least a respective first pixel and a respective second pixel; and at least one nanophotonic element optically-coupled to the image sensor, wherein the at least one nanophotonic element has an optical phase transfer function and comprises a two-dimensional arrangement of sub-wavelength regions of a first material interspersed within a second material, the first material having a first index of refraction and the second material having a second index of refraction, wherein the at least one nanophotonic element is configured to direct light toward individual superpixels in the plurality of superpixels based on the optical phase transfer function, and wherein the at least one nanophotonic element is further configured to direct light toward at least one of the first pixel or second pixel in each individual superpixel based on at least one of a wavelength dependence or a polarization dependence of the optical phase transfer function, wherein the at least one nanophotonic element is further configured to focus light along a focal plane based on the optical phase transfer function, and wherein the image sensor and the at least one nanophotonic element are configured to move with respect to one another along an optical axis over a focal distance range that includes the focal plane.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40625
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15167107', '15166908', '15367213', '15876719', '14460540']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6122735870939641
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5347365450927727
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.604519882893845
- Mean Citation Score: 255.833146
- Max Citation Score: 376.95374
- Similarity Product: 375.4795793385922

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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