PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16025040
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["042", "119000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for introducing a display image into an afocal optics device through an objective lens and without using a beamsplitter. A display device emits the image in a first direction, a focusing lens focuses the image, and a first reflector redirects the image in a second direction. A second reflector redirects the image through a periphery of the lens so that both the image and gathered light received from a target appears on the same focal plane such that the image appears to a user to be located between the lens and the target. The periphery of the objective lens may be a distance which is no more than 30% of a diameter of the lens from an edge of the lens. If the optics device is a rifle scope, the image may communicate such relevant information as range, inclination, wind direction or velocity, or temperature.

Claim (Index 8):
A method for introducing a display image into an afocal optics device having an objective lens and an ocular lens arranged in a spaced-apart relationship along an optical axis for viewing a target, the method comprising the steps of:\n configuring a display device to emit the display image in a first direction which is parallel to the optical axis; configuring a focusing lens to focus the display image; configuring a first reflective element to redirect the display image ninety degrees in a second direction which is perpendicular to the optical axis; and configuring a second reflective element to redirect the display image an additional ninety degrees in a third direction which is parallel to the optical axis and opposite the first direction such that the display image is directed only through the periphery and proximate to an edge of the objective lens and such that the objective lens is receiving and focusing the display image from the display device in addition to light received from a target, and the display image appears on a same focal plane as the light received from the target and appears to a user of the afocal optics device looking through the ocular lens to be located between the objective lens and the target.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0641
- Patent Class: 42.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15425499', '15889886', '15889534', '13574658', '14810097']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7868420376010451
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5448719981678617
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7626450336577267
- Mean Citation Score: 246.23297
- Max Citation Score: 421.6949
- Similarity Product: 394.2253134251654

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

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