PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944561
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
Representative embodiments of the present technology include a device for measuring distance to an object. The device comprises a light emitter configured to emit an outbound light pulse and a light sensor configured to receive a returning light pulse and output a pulse signal representing the returning light pulse. The device further comprises a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) coupled to the light sensor and including a time-to-digital converter (TDC) having a series of sequentially coupled delay units. Individual sequentially coupled delay units are associated with corresponding individual delay times. At least some of the sequentially coupled delay units have different individual delay times. The TDC is configured to measure timing information of the pulse signal based at least in part on the individual delay times of the sequentially coupled delay units. The device further includes a controller configured to calculate the distance to the object based on the timing information.

Claim (Index 32):
The device of  claim 1  wherein the TDC is further configured to measure the timing information of the pulse signal by:\n propagating an input signal through the series of sequentially coupled delay units, the input signal corresponding to one or more portions of the pulse signal, \n generating a data sequence having a first segment of only digital \u201c1\u201d data values, a second segment of only digital \u201c0\u201d data values, and a bubble segment between the first and second segments, the bubble segment including at least one digital \u201c1\u201d data value between neighboring digital \u201c0\u201d values and/or at least one digital \u201c0\u201d value between neighboring digital \u201c1\u201d data values, and \n determining a time value corresponding to a modification of the data sequence in which the at least one digital \u201c1\u201d data value of the bubble segment is moved toward the first segment and the at least one digital \u201c0\u201d data value of the bubble segment is moved toward the second segment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23611
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15944729', '13559909', '12639003', '12113955', '12874462']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.664363465861417
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4955328871324507
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6474804079885204
- Mean Citation Score: 155.37644799999995
- Max Citation Score: 218.0262
- Similarity Product: 160.99826150643827

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