PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16106441
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
A ladar transmitter that transmits ladar pulses toward a plurality of range points in a field of view can be controlled to target range points based on any of a plurality of defined shot list frames. Each defined shot list frame can identify various coordinates in the field of view that are to be targeted by a ladar pulses for a given ladar frame. A processor can process data about the field of view such as range data and/or camera data to make selections as to which of the defined shot list frames should be selected for a given frame of ladar data.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus comprising:\n a ladar transmitter configured to transmit a plurality of ladar pulses corresponding to a plurality of ladar frames toward a plurality of range points in a field of view, wherein the ladar transmitter comprises (1) a first mirror that is scannable between a plurality of scan positions, (2) a second mirror that is scannable between a plurality of scan positions, and (3) a beam scanner controller configured to dynamically control the scan positions for the first and second scannable mirrors on a shot-by-shot basis within a ladar frame according to a shot list input to thereby control where the ladar transmitter is aimed in the field of view for the ladar frame; a processor; and a memory configured to store a library comprising a plurality of shot pattern frames for selection, the shot pattern frames corresponding to a plurality of different types of shot patterns; wherein the processor is configured to (1) process data about the field of view, (2) select a shot pattern frame from the library based on the processed data, (3) instantiate the selected shot pattern frame based on the processed data, wherein the instantiated shot pattern frame comprises a shot list that identifies a plurality of shot coordinates in the field of view for targeting by a sequence of the ladar pulses in a given ladar frame in accordance with the shot pattern frame type corresponding to the selected shot pattern frame, and (4) provide the shot list to the ladar transmitter as the shot list input; and wherein the beam scanner controller is further configured to dynamically control the scan positions for the first and second scannable mirrors based on the provided shot list to scannably aim the ladar transmitter at the shot coordinates identified by the shot list for the given ladar frame, and wherein the ladar transmitter is further configured to transmit the sequence of ladar pulses for the given ladar frame toward the range points corresponding to the shot coordinates identified by the shot list via reflections of the ladar pulses from the first mirror to the second mirror and from the second mirror toward the targeted range points while the first and second mirrors' scan positions are being dynamically controlled in accordance with the shot list.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03846
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16106406', '16106374', '16106350', '15935720', '14827163']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7560341600467284
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.585946654439886
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7390254094860442
- Mean Citation Score: 301.231236
- Max Citation Score: 361.72354
- Similarity Product: 321.57699139163736

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

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