PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917628
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
A lidar system includes a transmitter that encodes successive transmit pulses with different pulse characteristics and a receiver that detects the pulse characteristics of each received (scattered or reflected) pulse and that distinguishes between the received pulses based on the detected pulse characteristics. The lidar system thus resolves range ambiguities by encoding pulses of scan positions in the same or different scan periods to have different pulse characteristics, such as different pulse widths or different pulse envelope shapes. The receiver includes a pulse decoder configured to detect the relevant pulse characteristics of the received pulse and a resolver that determines if the pulse characteristics of the received pulse matches the pulse characteristics of the current scan position or that of a previous scan position.

Claim (Index 1):
A system, comprising:\n a transmitter including a light source, a pulse encoder, and a controller, the light source configured to emit light pulses, the pulse encoder configured to encode light pulses of the light source with one or more pulse characteristics, and the controller configured to cause the encoder to encode light pulses of different scan position times with at least one different pulse characteristic value of the one or more pulse characteristics to produce encoded light pulses; a scanner configured to scan across a plurality of scan positions within a two dimensional field of regard, each scan position defined by a different set of vector coordinates, and to transmit one or more encoded light pulses towards a remote target at each of the scan positions; and a receiver configured to detect a light pulse, scattered by the remote target, the receiver including a light detector element, a pulse decoder, and a resolver, wherein the pulse decoder determines a pulse characteristic value of the detected light pulse and the resolver determines a set of vector coordinates of a scan position for a transmitted light pulse with which the detected light pulse is associated based on the pulse characteristic value of the detected light pulse.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03125
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15727073', '15710744', '15713192', '15843652', '15845552']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7283623367491596
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5225375657346911
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7077798596477127
- Mean Citation Score: 303.846478
- Max Citation Score: 348.37384
- Similarity Product: 281.38675496570585

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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