PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15767853
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["356", "039000"]

Abstract:
According to the present invention, a probe beam ( 14 ) having undergone dispersive Fourier transformation by a dispersive Fourier transformation unit is spatially mapped, an inspection object ( 18, 20 ) is irradiated with the probe beam ( 14 ), and transmitted light ( 15 ) from the inspection object ( 18, 20 ) is detected, whereby an image is generated on the basis of the intensity of the transmitted light ( 15 ). Accordingly, an imaging apparatus can be provided which can irradiate the inspection object ( 18, 20 ) with the weak probe beam ( 14 ) having an intensity attenuated by the dispersive Fourier transformation unit, which can generate an image only by detecting the transmitted light ( 15 ) from the inspection object ( 18, 20 ), and which has a high throughput of generating images while an influence on the inspection object ( 18, 20 ) is suppressed.

Claim (Index 6):
An imaging method comprising:\n a probe beam generation step of generating a probe beam; a dispersive Fourier transformation step of carrying out dispersive Fourier transformation on the probe beam so as to map a spectrum of the probe beam in a time domain; a spatial mapping step of spatially mapping the probe beam having undergone dispersive Fourier transformation and of irradiating an inspection object with the probe beam; a beam detection step of detecting transmitted light transmitted through the inspection object or scattered light scattered by the inspection object; and an image generation step of generating an image of the inspection object in accordance with an intensity of the transmitted light or the scattered light.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.625
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12985539', '13861582', '13770678', '12621496', '14610851']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6910532701513673
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4662410688302238
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.668572050019253
- Mean Citation Score: 200.409966
- Max Citation Score: 205.92723
- Similarity Product: 177.58395852836074

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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