PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909012
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
To detect an atmospheric condition at the current location of a lidar system, a receiver in the lidar system detects a return light pulse scattered by a target and analyzes the characteristics of the return light pulse. The characteristics of the return light pulse include a rise time, a fall time, a duration, a peak power, an amount of energy, etc. When the rise time, fall time, and/or duration exceed respective thresholds, the lidar system detects the atmospheric condition such as fog, sleet, snow, rain, dust, smog, exhaust, or insects. In response to detecting the atmospheric condition, the lidar system adjusts the characteristics of subsequent pulses to compensate for attenuation or distortion of return light pulses due to the atmospheric condition. For example, the lidar system adjusts the peak power, pulse energy, pulse duration, inter-pulse-train spacing, number of pulses, or any other suitable characteristic.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein providing a control signal to the light source adjusting one or more characteristics of the light pulses includes providing a control signal to the light source to increase a peak power of the light pulses.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29333
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15824416', '15845552', '15876662', '15861147', '15822677']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.761824211670975
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5059723669434428
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7362390271982218
- Mean Citation Score: 279.674954
- Max Citation Score: 297.73886
- Similarity Product: 234.9456786022353

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