PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15979235
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["356", "004010"]

Abstract:
Embodiments describe optical imagers that include one or more micro-optic components. Some imagers can be passive imagers that include a light detection system for receiving ambient light from a field. Some imagers can be active imagers that include a light emission system in addition to the light detection system. The light emission system can be configured to emit light into the field such that emitted light is reflected off surfaces of an object in the field and received by the light detection system. In some embodiments, the light detection system and/or the light emission system includes micro-optic components for improving operational performance.

Claim (Index 18):
An optical system for performing distance measurements, the optical system comprising:\n a stationary housing having an optically transparent window; and a light ranging device disposed within the housing, the light ranging device comprising an optical transmitter coupled to a platform, the optical transmitter comprising:\n a bulk transmitter optic; \n an illumination source comprising a plurality of light emitters aligned to project discrete beams of light through the bulk transmitter optic into a field ahead of the optical system; and \n a micro-optic channel array disposed between the illumination source and the bulk transmitter optic, the micro-optic channel array defining a plurality of micro-optic channels, each micro-optic channel including a micro-optic lens spaced apart from a light emitter from the plurality of light emitters with the micro-optic lens being configured to receive a light cone from the light emitter and generate a reduced-size spot image of the emitter at a focal point displaced from the emitter at a location between the emitter and the bulk transmitter optic.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92857
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15934613', '10351710', '13105497', '15934338', '15822951']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7053228091257987
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5181575417375499
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6866062823869737
- Mean Citation Score: 190.666422
- Max Citation Score: 205.0554
- Similarity Product: 168.24876569323538

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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