PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976677
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "046000"]

Abstract:
An electronic device includes a SPAD array and readout circuitry coupled thereto. The readout circuitry generates a depth map having a first resolution, and a signal count map having a second resolution greater than the first resolution. The depth map corresponds to distance observations to an object. The signal count map corresponds to intensity observation sets of the object, with each intensity observation set including intensity observations corresponding to a respective distance observation in the depth map. An upscaling processor is coupled to the readout circuitry to calculate upscaling factors for each intensity observation set so that each distance observation has respective upscaling factors associated therewith. The depth map is then upscaled from the first resolution to the second resolution based on the respective upscaling factors.

Claim (Index 8):
The method of  claim 7 , wherein calculating the plurality of upscaling factors comprises calculating the plurality of upscaling factors by f \ue8a0 ( SigCnt _ , SigCnt l ) = SigCnt _ SigCnt l where l=1, 2, . . . , N, SigCnt l  is the intensity observation of the l-th fully covered macropixel in the first observation set, and f( SigCnt , SigCnt l ) is the l-th upscaling factor of the plurality of upscaling factors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 51.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23333
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15204185', '14131051', '13575543', '14757594', '12737071']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.633814573623712
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.553616756924986
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6257947919538394
- Mean Citation Score: 236.00751
- Max Citation Score: 433.3022
- Similarity Product: 318.6787790379763

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