PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16286437
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["356", "445000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments are directed to an imaging apparatus, which in an embodiment includes a light source to provide light, optics, a translation mechanism and a detector. The optics include focusing optics to perform focusing of the light onto a non-flat focal surface and to direct the light toward a three dimensional object. The translation mechanism adjusts a location of at least one lens of the focusing optics to displace the non-flat focal surface. The detector measures intensities of returning light that is reflected off of the three dimensional object, wherein the intensities of the returning light are measured for a plurality of locations of the at least one lens for determination of positions of a plurality of points of the three dimensional object. Detected positions of one or more of the plurality of points are adjusted to compensate for the non-flat focal surface.

Claim (Index 18):
The imaging apparatus of  claim 11 , wherein the imaging apparatus is a confocal imaging apparatus, and wherein the optics are confocal optics, the imaging apparatus further comprising a processor to:\n determine a location of the at least one lens that yields a maximum measured intensity for a portion of the returning light; determine a position on the imaging axis of a point of the three dimensional object illuminated by the portion of the returning light that corresponds to the determined location of the at least one lens; and adjust the position on the imaging axis of the point of the three dimensional object based on applying the determined location of the at least one lens to a field curvature model that is calibrated to the imaging apparatus to compensate for the absence of the field lens.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35938
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14825173', '15610515', '12739589', '12706277', '14741172']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6857023231220539
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5034597446258045
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.667478065272429
- Mean Citation Score: 220.653794
- Max Citation Score: 298.31766
- Similarity Product: 251.9585153741025

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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