PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944561
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
Representative embodiments of the present technology include a device for measuring distance to an object. The device comprises a light emitter configured to emit an outbound light pulse and a light sensor configured to receive a returning light pulse and output a pulse signal representing the returning light pulse. The device further comprises a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) coupled to the light sensor and including a time-to-digital converter (TDC) having a series of sequentially coupled delay units. Individual sequentially coupled delay units are associated with corresponding individual delay times. At least some of the sequentially coupled delay units have different individual delay times. The TDC is configured to measure timing information of the pulse signal based at least in part on the individual delay times of the sequentially coupled delay units. The device further includes a controller configured to calculate the distance to the object based on the timing information.

Claim (Index 35):
The device of  claim 34  wherein the latch unit includes a plurality of latches, and wherein individual latches are coupled to a corresponding delay unit of the sequentially coupled delay units and configured to latch an output of the corresponding delay unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23611
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15944729', '13559909', '12639003', '12113955', '12874462']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6610990583814905
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5105958217999256
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.646048734723334
- Mean Citation Score: 155.37644799999995
- Max Citation Score: 218.0262
- Similarity Product: 133.52531270091532

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