PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16024024
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["353", "031000"]

Abstract:
A light pattern projector with a pattern mask to spatially modulate an intensity of a wideband illumination source, such as an LED, and a projector lens to reimage the spatially modulated emission onto regions of a scene that is to be captured with an image sensor. The projector lens may comprise a microlens array (MLA) including a first lenslet to reimage the spatially modulated emission onto a first portion of a scene, and a second lenslet to reimage the spatially modulated emission onto a first portion of a scene. The MLA may have a fly's eye architecture with convex curvature over a diameter of the projector lens in addition to the lenslet curvature. The pattern mask may be an amplitude mask comprising a mask pattern of high and low amplitude transmittance regions. In the alternative, the pattern mask may be a phase mask, such as a refractive or diffractive mask.

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 17 , wherein applying the mask further comprises at least one of: printing the low transmittance regions with an ink, laminating a dry film onto the projector lens and patterning the dry film into the low transmittance regions, or modifying portions of the projector lens material into the low transmittance regions through laser processing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29577
- Patent Class: 353.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13254567', '13368428', '12464486', '15284896', '13499884']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7067814395640162
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.486242437013577
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6847275393089722
- Mean Citation Score: 179.502318
- Max Citation Score: 187.48712
- Similarity Product: 130.63881132971764

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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