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 11):
A solid state optical system for performing distance measurements, the solid state optical system comprising:\n a first light emission module including a first bulk transmitter optic and a first illumination source comprising a first two-dimensional array of light emitters aligned to project discrete beams of light through the first bulk transmitter optic into a field external to the optical system according to a first illumination pattern; a second light emission module including a second bulk transmitter optic and a second illumination source comprising 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; and a light detection module including a bulk receiver optic, an aperture layer including a plurality of apertures, and a photosensor layer including an array of photosensors configured to detect photons emitted from the first and second illumination sources and reflected from surfaces within the field through the bulk receiver optic, wherein the aperture layer and the photosensor layer are arranged to form a two-dimensional array of sense channels, each sense channel including an aperture from the aperture layer and a photosensor from the photosensor layer and having a field-of-view that overlaps with a field-of-view of one emitter from the first emitter array and one emitter from the second emitter array; wherein the first and second arrays of light emitters and the array of photosensors operate in synchronization such that when one or more light emitters are activated, a corresponding ones of the photosensors are read.

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): 0.7190825052070269
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.604080716489742
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7075823263352984
- Mean Citation Score: 329.112474
- Max Citation Score: 542.7905
- Similarity Product: 476.8925957997143

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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