PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965288
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
A lidar system includes one or more light sources configured to generate a first and second beams of light, a scanner configured to synchronously scan a field of regard of the lidar system using the two beams, and a receiver configured to detect light of the two beams scattered by one or more remote targets. The scanner includes a rotatable polygon mirror having a block having a first wall, a second wall, and reflective surfaces extending between the first and second walls, the reflective surfaces being angularly offset from one another along a periphery of the block; a polygon mirror axle extending into the block, about which the block rotates; optical elements configured to direct the first and second beams of light respectively to two adjacent reflective surfaces of the rotatable polygon mirror; and a second mirror pivotable along an axis orthogonal to the polygon mirror axle.

Claim (Index 16):
A method in a lidar system for scanning a field of regard, the method comprising:\n directing, within a single ranging event, a first pulse of light at a first reflective surface of a polygon mirror and a second pulse of light at a second reflective surface of the polygon mirror, wherein the polygon mirror rotates about a polygon mirror axis; directing, with the polygon mirror within the single ranging event, the first pulse of light and the second pulse of light to respective locations on a reflective surface of a second mirror that pivots along an axis orthogonal to the polygon mirror axis; directing, with the second mirror, the first pulse of light and the second pulse of light along a scan direction to illuminate a first instantaneous light-source field of view (FOV) corresponding to a first pixel and a second instantaneous light-source FOV corresponding to a second pixel, respectively; detecting, within a single ranging event, the first beam of light scattered by one or more remote targets using a first detector and the second beam of light scattered by the one or more remote targets using a second detector, to generate values for the first pixel and the second pixel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.32353
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15965197', '15965471', '15958749', '15965519', '15941677']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7765557120130152
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5757325192130673
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7564733927330204
- Mean Citation Score: 419.701232
- Max Citation Score: 491.75534000000016
- Similarity Product: 425.80648384727607

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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