PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882493
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["348", "139000"]

Abstract:
A distance-measuring imaging device includes: a drive controller that outputs a light emission signal and an exposure signal; a light source; a solid-state imager that performs exposure to reflected light; and a TOF calculator that calculates a distance to an object using an imaging signal. The drive controller: cyclically outputs a first exposure signal group in which, before an exposure period of one exposure signal ends, an exposure period of at least one other exposure signal starts; and outputs a second exposure signal group having a dead zone period during which all exposure signals are in a non-exposure period. The TOF calculator calculates a first distance value using a first imaging signal obtained according to the first exposure signal group, calculates a second distance value using a second imaging signal obtained according to the second exposure signal group, and calculates the distance based on the first and second distance values.

Claim (Index 5):
The distance-measuring imaging device according to  claim 4 ,\n wherein the calculator: estimates, using the first imaging signal, an imaging signal obtained in the case where the controller outputs an exposure signal that has the same exposure period as each exposure signal in the second exposure signal group and differs from each exposure signal in the second exposure signal group in delay time with respect to the light emission signal; and calculates the second distance value using the estimated imaging signal and the second imaging signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5873
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14965901', '15358230', '14973002', '15045851', '14977579']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6621031591213298
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4979372066252584
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6456865638717226
- Mean Citation Score: 236.495088
- Max Citation Score: 266.1241
- Similarity Product: 212.28397131360768

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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