PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16072212
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["355", "055000"]

Abstract:
A scanning mirror monitoring system and method as well as a focusing and leveling system are disclosed. The scanning mirror monitoring system includes a simple harmonic motion detector unit and a signal processing unit ( 25 ). The simple harmonic motion detector unit monitors a simple harmonic motion of a scanning mirror ( 8 ) and produces a simple harmonic signal. The signal processing unit ( 25 ) receives the simple harmonic signal and instructs a scanning mirror actuator unit ( 27 ) to adjust the amplitude and/or position of the scanning mirror ( 8 ) based on a variation found in the simple harmonic signal. The signal processing unit ( 25 ) identifies the variation by monitoring an optical intensity profile.

Claim (Index 17):
A scanning mirror monitoring method, comprising the steps of:\n 1) controlling the scanning mirror to vibrate in a simple harmonic motion, monitoring a resulting simple harmonic signal, and recording a periodic optical intensity profile at standard values of a vibration amplitude and a position of the scanning mirror as an original profile; 2) monitoring a change in the optical intensity profile of the simple harmonic motion of the scanning mirror and accordingly recording a varied optical intensity profile, and if the varied optical intensity profile peaks at a lower value than the original profile, determining that a shift occurs in the position of the scanning mirror, or if the varied optical intensity profile peaks at a same value as the original profile and valleys at a different value from the original profile, determining that a shift occurs in the vibration amplitude of the scanning mirror; and 3) based on the determination in step 2, controlling, by the signal processing unit, the scanning mirror actuator unit to incrementally adjust the scanning mirror until the varied optical intensity profile coincides with the original profile.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44231
- Patent Class: 355.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15531225', '13238139', '10461234', '14366637', '12516122']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6563524823545716
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4929389905648843
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6400111331756028
- Mean Citation Score: 224.798442
- Max Citation Score: 279.06946
- Similarity Product: 230.73379469573013

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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