PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16209376
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["348", "756000"]

Abstract:
A multi-beam scanning system and methods of operating the same to compensate for distortion are provided. Generally, the method involves illuminating a spatial light modulator including SLM pixels arranged in parallel, each pixel including a multiple address pixels. Drive signals including image data are provided to the pixels to generate beams of modulated light reflected therefrom, which is scanned to a linear swath of a two-dimensional imaging plane using a collimate lens, a scan mirror moved about a first axis, and an imaging lens. The swath is scanned across the imaging plane in a direction orthogonal to a long axis of the swath by moving the scan mirror about a second axis. To compensate for distortion along the long axis of the swath compensated image data is provided to at least some of the address pixels generating beams of modulated light distal from an optical axis of the imaging lens.

Claim (Index 15):
A multi-beam scanning system comprising:\n a spatial light modulator (SLM) comprising a plurality of SLM pixels including a number of SLM pixels arranged in parallel along long axes of the SLM pixels and driven by a single channel of a plurality of drive channels, each of the number of SLM pixels including a plurality of address pixels; an illuminator including a light source and illumination optics to illuminate reflective surfaces of the plurality of SLM pixels in the SLM; imaging optics including a collimate lens, an imaging lens, and a scan mirror capable of being moved about at least a first and a second axes; a controller coupled to the SLM, illuminator and imaging optics to control the SLM, light source and scan mirror to modulate light incident on the SLM and to scan beams of modulated light reflected from the SLM pixels to a substantially linear swath of a two-dimensional (2D) imaging plane and to scan the linear swath across the 2D imaging plane in a direction orthogonal to a long axis of the linear swath, wherein the controller is configured to provide drive signals including image data to the number of SLM pixels and to provide compensated image data to address pixels generating beams of modulated light beam distal from an optical axis of the imaging lens.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97531
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12151189', '10768199', '11287678', '13245655', '14721013']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6303469423354147
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4807005282666211
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6153823009285353
- Mean Citation Score: 213.007996
- Max Citation Score: 220.1914
- Similarity Product: 174.08947659673692

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

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