PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16167196
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["348", "046000"]

Abstract:
An active-pulsed four-dimensional camera system that utilizes a precisely-controlled light source produces spatial information and human-viewed or computer-analyzed images. The acquisition of four-dimensional optical information is performed at a sufficient rate to provide accurate image and spatial information for in-motion applications where the camera is in motion and/or objects being imaged, detected and classified are in motion. Embodiments allow for the reduction or removal of image-blocking conditions like fog, snow, rain, sleet, and dust from the processed images. Embodiments provide for operation in daytime or nighttime conditions and can be utilized for day or night full-motion video capture with features like shadow removal. Multi-angle image analysis is taught as a method for classifying and identifying objects and surface features based on their optical reflective characteristics.

Claim (Index 26):
An active-pulsed four-dimensional (4D) camera system for acquiring information from a scene comprising:\n at least one emitter configured to emit K successive cycles of a plurality of active light pulses throughout the scene, wherein a time between a start of one of the K successive cycles and a start of a next one of the K successive cycles is varied throughout the K successive cycles; an array of detectors configured to receive reflected light related to the active light pulses emitted in each of the K successive cycles, wherein a time between the start of emitting the light pulses and a start of receiving reflected light is varied in each of the K successive cycles; and a plurality of buffers configured to store digital information related to the reflected light received by the array of detectors; and a processing system operably coupled to the plurality of buffers and configured to:\n analyze the digital information to determine distance information and color information for the scene based at least in part on the time between the start of one of the K successive cycles and the start of the next one of the K successive cycles being varied throughout the K successive cycles, and \n construct a digital representation of the scene based on the determined distance information and the determined color information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.51685
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15059811', '15853222', '14639802', '15173969', '14251254']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.660634444764205
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5817446527091489
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6527454655586994
- Mean Citation Score: 280.53830800000003
- Max Citation Score: 413.4119
- Similarity Product: 405.04855458514686

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

Dataset: test