PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16028154
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["356", "004010"]

Abstract:
Embodiments describe a solid state electronic scanning LIDAR system that includes a scanning focal plane transmitting element and a scanning focal plane receiving element whose operations are synchronized so that the firing sequence of an emitter array in the transmitting element corresponds to a capturing sequence of a photosensor array in the receiving element. During operation, the emitter array can sequentially fire one or more light emitters into a scene and the reflected light can be received by a corresponding set of one or more photosensors through an aperture layer positioned in front of the photosensors. Each light emitter can correspond with an aperture in the aperture layer, and each aperture can correspond to a photosensor in the receiving element such that each light emitter corresponds with a specific photosensor in the receiving element.

Claim (Index 16):
A solid state optical system for performing distance measurements, the solid state optical system comprising:\n a light detection system comprising a bulk receiver optic, an aperture layer including a plurality of apertures, and a photosensor layer including a two-dimensional array of photosensors, wherein the aperture layer and the photosensor layer are arranged to form a plurality of sense channels having a sensing pattern with each sense channel in the plurality of sense channels defining a discrete, non-overlapping field-of-view beyond a threshold distance in a field ahead of the light detection system and including an aperture from the aperture layer and a photosensor from the photosensor layer; a light emission system comprising a first bulk transmitter optic, a first two-dimensional array of light emitters aligned to project discrete beams of light through the first bulk transmitter optic into the field according to a first illumination pattern, a second bulk transmitter optic, and a second two-dimensional array of light emitters aligned to project discrete beams of light through the second bulk transmitter optic into the field according to a second illumination pattern having a same size and geometry as the first illumination pattern, wherein the first and second illumination patterns are aligned such that one discrete beam from the first illumination pattern and one discrete beam from the second illumination pattern falls within the field-of-view of each sense channel in the plurality of sense channels; emitter array scanning circuitry coupled to the first and second arrays of light emitters and configured to execute a plurality of image capture periods where, for each image capture period the emitter array scanning circuitry sequentially fires a subset of emitters from the first emitter array followed by a subset of emitters from the second emitter array until the first and second illumination patterns are generated; and sensor array scanning circuity coupled to the array of photosensors and configured to synchronize the readout of individual photosensors within the array concurrently with the firing of corresponding emitters within the first and second arrays of light emitters.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10606
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16028148', '15979235', '16006331', '15861330', '15851686']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7189122399766121
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6045862723638296
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7074796432153339
- Mean Citation Score: 329.112474
- Max Citation Score: 542.7905
- Similarity Product: 479.0537328208685

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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