PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934613
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["356", "004010"]

Abstract:
Optical systems and methods for collecting distance information are disclosed. An example optical system includes a first transmitting optic, a plurality of illumination sources, a pixel array comprising at least a first column of pixels and a second column of pixels, each pixel in the first column of pixels being offset from an adjacent pixel in the first column of pixels by a first pixel pitch, the second column of pixels being horizontally offset from the first column of pixels by the first pixel pitch, the second column of pixels being vertically offset from the first column of pixels by a first vertical pitch; and a set of input channels interposed between the first transmitting optic and the pixel array.

Claim (Index 16):
An optical system for performing distance measurements, the optical system comprising:\n a laser array including a plurality of lasers, each laser in the plurality of lasers having an operating wavelength and configured to project a discrete illuminating beam in a field ahead of the optical system; a pixel block including a plurality of pixels; a bulk receiver optic configured to receive light from the field; an optical assembly defining a plurality of input channels disposed between the bulk receiver optic and the pixel block, each input channel in the plurality of input channels configured to communicate light from the bulk receiver optic to a pixel in the plurality of pixels, wherein the optical assembly comprises: an aperture layer arranged behind and coincident with a focal plane of the bulk receiver optic and defining a plurality of apertures including one aperture per input channel; a lens layer adjacent the aperture layer opposite the bulk receiver optic, the lens layer comprising a plurality of lenses including an input lens substantially axially aligned with a corresponding aperture for each input channel; and an optical filter between the lens layer and the pixel block and configured to receive light from the plurality of lenses and pass a narrow band of radiation that includes the operating wavelength of the plurality of lasers to the plurality of pixels while blocking radiation outside the band; and a rotary actuator comprising a rotary electric motor operatively coupled to rotate the plurality of input channels and the bulk receiver optic about a full 360 degree rotation axis of the system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 71.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46154
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15934338', '15276532', '15048369', '15861330', '14814297']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6942741690407981
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4972576866543485
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6745725208021531
- Mean Citation Score: 173.92597600000005
- Max Citation Score: 187.25084
- Similarity Product: 171.58769919115784

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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