PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896233
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are a number of example embodiments that employ controllable delays between successive ladar pulses in order to discriminate between “own” ladar pulse reflections and “interfering” ladar pulses reflections by a receiver. Example embodiments include designs where a sparse delay sum circuit is used at the receiver and where a funnel filter is used at the receiver. Also, disclosed are techniques for selecting codes to use for the controllable delays as well as techniques for identifying and tracking interfering ladar pulses and their corresponding delay codes. The use of a ladar system with pulse deconfliction is also disclosed as part of an optical data communication system.

Claim (Index 14):
The apparatus of  claim 13  wherein the cascaded sparse delay sum circuit comprises:\n a first delay circuit and a second delay circuit in series, the first delay circuit configured to delay a received signal by a first delay to generate a first delayed signal, the second delay circuit configured to delay the first delayed signal by a second delay to generate a second delayed signal, wherein the first and second delays correspond to the known delays; \n a first adder configured to tap into the first delayed signal and sum the received signal with the first delayed signal to generate a first delay sum signal; \n a second adder configured to tap into the second delayed signal and sum the first delay sum signal with the second delayed signal to generate a second delay sum signal; \n a comparator configured to compare the second delay sum signal with a controllable threshold; and \n logic configured to determine whether the second delay sum signal includes an own pulse reflection based on the threshold comparison.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70588
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15896254', '15896219', '15896241', '15590491', '15430200']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7582918307689297
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5417110993765623
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7366337576296931
- Mean Citation Score: 310.80585800000006
- Max Citation Score: 402.25626
- Similarity Product: 298.9989805135632

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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