PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16028673
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["362", "514000"]

Abstract:
When forming a first light distribution pattern, the controller is configured to control the magnitudes of the drive currents of first light emitting element and the second light emitting element. When forming a second light distribution pattern, the controller is configured to control so that the magnitude of the drive current of the second light emitting element is smaller than when forming the first light distribution pattern and/or so that a time period in which the drive current is to be supplied to the second light emitting element is shorter than when forming the first light distribution pattern.

Claim (Index 5):
The optical unit comprising:\n a light source including a light emitting element; and a rotating reflector configured to rotate about an axis of rotation while reflecting light emitted from the light source, wherein the rotating reflector has a reflective surface so as to form a light distribution pattern by scanning reflected light of the light source while the rotating reflector is rotating, the light source further includes a controller configured to control a magnitude of a drive current of the light emitting element, (a) when forming a first light distribution pattern including an irradiation range to be irradiated by light emitted from the light emitting element, the controller is configured to control the magnitude of the drive current of the light emitting element, and (b) when forming a second light distribution pattern in which a maximum luminosity of the irradiation range is higher than when forming the first light distribution pattern, the controller is configured to control so that the magnitude of the drive current of the light emitting element is greater than when forming the first light distribution pattern and a time period in which the drive current is to be supplied to the light emitting element is shorter than when forming the first light distribution pattern.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68421
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13640035', '15975120', '14057172', '15711382', '14057129']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8439623866943062
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4750779965465364
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8070739476795293
- Mean Citation Score: 225.686616
- Max Citation Score: 240.05879
- Similarity Product: 203.4010241217136

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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