PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16047771
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["385", "012000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus is disclosed for capturing image information. The apparatus includes a waveguide having opposed planar input and output faces. A diffractive optical element (DOE) is formed across the waveguide. The DOE is configured to couple a portion of the light passing through the waveguide into the waveguide. The light coupled into the waveguide is directed via total internal reflection to an exit location on the waveguide. The apparatus further includes a light sensor having an input positioned adjacent the exit location of the waveguide to capture light exiting therefrom and generate output signals corresponding thereto. A processor determines the angle and position of the coupled light with respect to the input face of the waveguide based on the output signals.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus comprising:\n a processor; a first waveguide having opposed planar input and output faces; a first diffractive optical element (DOE) formed across the first waveguide, the first DOE configured to couple light into the first waveguide, wherein the light coupled into the first waveguide is directed via total internal reflection to an exit location of the first waveguide; and a light sensor having an input positioned adjacent to the exit location of the first waveguide to capture light exiting therefrom and generate output signals corresponding thereto, wherein:\n the angle and position of the light sensor with respect to the exit location of the first waveguide are movable and are controllable by the processor, and \n the output signals comprise a polar coordinate pixel corresponding to the captured light.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91176
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15881345', '15824777', '15159518', '14707311', '14707616']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.794623773733176
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5486549889298546
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7700268952528438
- Mean Citation Score: 304.6467080000001
- Max Citation Score: 402.44302000000016
- Similarity Product: 397.8657303545429

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

Dataset: test