PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980509
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["356", "004010"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems can augment 360 degree panoramic LIDAR results (e.g., from a spinning LIDAR system) with color obtained from color cameras. A color-pixel-lookup table can specify the correspondence between LIDAR pixels (depth/ranging pixels) and color pixels, which may be done at different viewing object distances. The operation of the color cameras can be triggered by the angular positions of the LIDAR system. For example, a color image of a particular camera can be captured when the LIDAR system is at a particular angular position, which can be predetermined based on properties of the cameras (e.g., shutter speed). Alternatively or in addition, a common internal clock can be used to assign timestamps to LIDAR and color pixels as they are captured. The corresponding color pixel(s), e.g., as determined using a color-pixel-lookup table, with the closest timestamp can be used for colorization.

Claim (Index 9):
The panoramic color LIDAR system of  claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to:\n store a group of the plurality of LIDAR pixels in the memory until a corresponding color image of the plurality of color images is acquired; and associate one or more of the plurality of color pixels with each of the group of the plurality of LIDAR pixels in response to the corresponding color image being acquired.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9186
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15719366', '15047525', '15139183', '15385181', '15129655']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7124671280845437
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4884998470849299
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6900703999845823
- Mean Citation Score: 161.711566
- Max Citation Score: 170.47818
- Similarity Product: 110.14620351273535

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