PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15782018
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["356", "477000"]

Abstract:
Various balanced detection systems which reduce alignment requirements of free space optics based balanced detection configurations are discussed. One example system includes a light source, a beam divider, sample optics, return optics, and a processor. The light source generates a light beam. The beam divider separates the light beam into reference and sample arms. The sample optics deliver the light beam in the sample arm to a light scattering object to be imaged. The return optics direct light to a balanced detection system, which has a balanced detection beam divider for combining light scattered from the object and light from the reference arm and directing the combined light into two detection channels and two detectors for collecting the combined light in the two detection channels and generating signals in response thereto. The processor processes the signals and generates image data of the object based on the processed signals.

Claim (Index 15):
A frequency-domain interferometric imaging system for imaging a light scattering object comprising:\n a light source for generating a light beam; a beam divider for separating the light beam into reference and sample arms, wherein the sample arm contains the light scattering object to be imaged; sample optics for delivering the light beam in the sample arm to the light scattering object to be imaged; return optics for directing light from the sample arm and the reference arm to a balanced detection system, said balanced detection system having a balanced detection beam divider for combining light scattered from the object and light from the reference arm and directing the combined light into two detection channels, said balanced detection system further comprising a detector having two photosensitive elements and a lens aligned with the detector, and wherein the light in the two detection channels is directed at the lens from two different directions in a manner so that the light from each detection channel illuminates a different photosensitive element; and a processor for processing the generated signals and for generating image data of the object based on the processed signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38806
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15025410', '13489368', '15759486', '16075934', '13782311']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7226825025930105
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.50530477118046
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7009447294517555
- Mean Citation Score: 260.14783800000004
- Max Citation Score: 308.75665
- Similarity Product: 281.99776585261816

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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