PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958434
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "186000"]

Abstract:
A time-of-flight (TOF) sensor includes a light source, a plurality of avalanche photodiodes, and a plurality of pulse generators. Control circuitry is coupled to the light source, the plurality of avalanche photodiodes, and the plurality of pulse generators, and the control circuitry includes logic that when executed by the control circuitry causes the time-of-flight sensor to perform operations. The operations include emitting the light from the light source, and receiving the light reflected from an object with the plurality of avalanche photodiodes. A plurality of pulses is output from the individual pulse generators corresponding to the individual avalanche photodiodes that received the light, and a timing signal is output when the plurality of pulses overlap temporally. A time is calculated when a first avalanche photodiode in the plurality of avalanche photodiodes received the light.

Claim (Index 8):
The TOF sensor of  claim 1 , wherein the control circuitry further includes logic that when executed by the control circuitry causes the time-of-flight sensor to perform operations, including:\n calculating a time-of-flight, using the timing signal, with the control circuitry.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59649
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15333653', '15945623', '14680906', '15798067', '14721424']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.912381205825288
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5061160916672844
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8717546944094878
- Mean Citation Score: 229.717244
- Max Citation Score: 253.75586
- Similarity Product: 191.02176667498944

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

Dataset: test