PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917628
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
A lidar system includes a transmitter that encodes successive transmit pulses with different pulse characteristics and a receiver that detects the pulse characteristics of each received (scattered or reflected) pulse and that distinguishes between the received pulses based on the detected pulse characteristics. The lidar system thus resolves range ambiguities by encoding pulses of scan positions in the same or different scan periods to have different pulse characteristics, such as different pulse widths or different pulse envelope shapes. The receiver includes a pulse decoder configured to detect the relevant pulse characteristics of the received pulse and a resolver that determines if the pulse characteristics of the received pulse matches the pulse characteristics of the current scan position or that of a previous scan position.

Claim (Index 24):
A method for transmitting and receiving light pulses, the method comprising:\n transmitting one or more light pulses at each of a plurality of scan positions within a two dimensional field of regard, each scan position defined by a different set of vector coordinates; encoding light pulses of different scan positions with at least one different pulse characteristic value; receiving light pulses scattered by a remote target; detecting a scattered light pulse; identifying a pulse characteristic value of the detected light pulse; determining from the pulse characteristic value of the detected light pulse a set of vector coordinates of the scan position for a transmitted light pulse with which the detected light pulse is associated.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03125
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15727073', '15710744', '15713192', '15843652', '15845552']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.728080201847205
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5208657924398716
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7073587609064718
- Mean Citation Score: 303.846478
- Max Citation Score: 348.37384
- Similarity Product: 313.2964493032837

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

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