PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16114139
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
A LIDAR system includes a scanner; a receiver; and one or more processor devices to perform actions, including: scanning a continuous light beam over the field of view in a first scan pass; detecting photons of the continuous light beam that are reflected from one or more objects; determining a coarse range to the one or more objects based on times of departure of the photons of the continuous light beam and times of arrival of the photons at the receiver; scanning light pulses over the field of view in a second scan pass; detecting photons from the light pulses that are reflected from the one or more objects; and determining a refined range to the one or more objects based on times of departure of the photons of the light pulses and times of arrival of the photons at the receiver.

Claim (Index 11):
A system to measure a range of one or more objects, comprising:\n a scanner configured to scan light over a field of view; a receiver that comprises a plurality of pixels configured to detect light; one or more memory devices that store instructions; and one or more processor devices that execute the stored instructions to perform actions, including:\n employing the scanner to scan a continuous light beam at the one or more objects; \n employing continuous light reflected by the one or more objects onto the pixels of the receiver to determine a coarse range between the scanner and the one or more objects; \n employing the scanner to scan a pulsed light beam at the one or more objects; \n employing pulses of light reflected by the one or more objects onto the pixels of the receiver to determine a refined range between the scanner and the one or more objects; and \n iteratively redetermining the refined range based on subsequent reflected pulses of light over time generated by other scans of the pulsed of light beam at the one or more objects.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 40.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.86792
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15799149', '15974153', '15853783', '15098285', '15941677']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6520319877234638
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5012102136995428
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6369498103210718
- Mean Citation Score: 186.80671
- Max Citation Score: 285.2859200000001
- Similarity Product: 242.0248916035748

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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