PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031815
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["356", "004010"]

Abstract:
A machine vision system comprises a camera configured to generate one or more images of a field of regard of the camera, a lidar system, and a processor. The lidar system includes a laser configured to emit light, where the emitted light is directed toward a region within the field of regard of the camera and a receiver configured to detect light returned from the emitted light. The processor is configured to receive an indication of a location based on the returned light and determine whether a solid object is present at the location based on the one or more images.

Claim (Index 41):
A method for operating a machine vision system, the method comprising:\n receiving, from a camera, data descriptive of a scene within a field of regard (FOR) of the camera; emitting, by a laser operating in a lidar system, light; directing the emitted light toward a region within the FOR of the camera; detecting light returned from the emitted light; receiving an indication of a location based on the returned light; determining, by a processor, whether a solid object is present at the location, based on the data descriptive of the scene, including detecting an object in a path of the emitted light, at an approximate distance greater than a maximum range of the lidar system, using the data descriptive of the scene, wherein the object scatters the light corresponding to the indication of the location; and generating a pixel that corresponds to the range of the object in response to detecting the object at a distance greater than the maximum range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 74.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.09804
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16020481', '15954427', '15909012', '15843652', '15828195']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7100819726032197
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4726692340456277
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6863406987474605
- Mean Citation Score: 203.736716
- Max Citation Score: 210.84373
- Similarity Product: 173.18185931360065

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