PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976677
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "046000"]

Abstract:
An electronic device includes a SPAD array and readout circuitry coupled thereto. The readout circuitry generates a depth map having a first resolution, and a signal count map having a second resolution greater than the first resolution. The depth map corresponds to distance observations to an object. The signal count map corresponds to intensity observation sets of the object, with each intensity observation set including intensity observations corresponding to a respective distance observation in the depth map. An upscaling processor is coupled to the readout circuitry to calculate upscaling factors for each intensity observation set so that each distance observation has respective upscaling factors associated therewith. The depth map is then upscaled from the first resolution to the second resolution based on the respective upscaling factors.

Claim (Index 21):
An electronic device comprising:\n an imager comprising a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array, wherein the imager is configured to\n generate a first depth map having a first resolution, wherein the first depth map has a plurality of distance observations to an object, and \n generate a signal count map having a second resolution greater than the first resolution, wherein the signal count map has a plurality of intensity observation sets of the object, wherein each of the plurality of intensity observation sets has a plurality of intensity observations corresponding to a respective distance observation of the plurality of distance observations; \n an upscaling processor coupled to the imager; and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing programming for execution by the upscaling processors, the programming including instructions to:\n identify, by the upscaling processor, fully covered macropixels in each of the plurality of intensity observation sets; \n calculate, by the upscaling processor, an average intensity observation for each of the plurality of intensity observation sets using values of the fully covered macropixels in the each of the plurality of intensity observation sets; and \n calculate, by the upscaling processor, a second depth map having the second resolution using the first depth map, the average intensity observation of each of the plurality of intensity observation sets, and the signal count map.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23333
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15204185', '14131051', '13575543', '14757594', '12737071']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6006438546552443
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5613853249837237
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5967180016880923
- Mean Citation Score: 236.00751
- Max Citation Score: 433.3022
- Similarity Product: 411.0800777276516

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