PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944729
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["356", "928000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for performing optical distance measurement are provided. In one aspect, a system for measuring a distance to an object comprises a light emitter configured to emit an outbound light pulse, and a light sensor configured to receive a returning light pulse reflected from the object and output an analog pulse signal representing the returning light pulse. The system also comprises a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) coupled to the light sensor. The FPGA is configured to convert the analog pulse signal to a plurality of digital signal values, and generate a plurality of time measurements corresponding to the plurality of digital signal values. The system also comprises a controller configured to calculate the distance to the object based on the plurality of digital signal values and the plurality of time measurements.

Claim (Index 41):
The system of  claim 40 , wherein the function comprises a pulse signal model, and wherein the estimated time value is derived by fitting the plurality of digital signal values and the plurality of time measurements to the pulse signal model.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34426
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15944561', '15167945', '15673234', '13784329', '12493949']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7163887136505246
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4914054068514473
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6938903829706169
- Mean Citation Score: 168.89518400000003
- Max Citation Score: 181.18538
- Similarity Product: 117.73561032681464

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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