PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876662
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
To compensate for the uneven distribution of data points around the periphery of a vehicle in a lidar system, a light source transmits light pulses at a variable pulse rate according to the orientation of the light pulses with respect to the lidar system. A controller may communicate with a scanner in the lidar system that provides the orientations of the light pulses to the controller. The controller may then provide a control signal to the light source adjusting the pulse rate based on the orientations of the light pulses. For example, the pulse rate may be slower near the front of the lidar system and faster near the periphery. In another example, the pulse rate may be faster near the front of the lidar system and slower near the periphery.

Claim (Index 20):
A controller in a lidar system comprising:\n one or more processors; and a non-transitory computer-readable memory coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the controller to:\n receive an indication of a scan angle at which a scanner directs light pulses emitted by a light source, wherein the scan angle is one of a plurality of different scan angles relative to a front-facing direction with respect to the lidar system within a field of regard of the lidar system; \n compare the scan angle to a threshold orientation; \n in response to determining that the scan angle exceeds the threshold orientation, provide a control signal to the light source to emit the light pulses at a first pulse rate; and \n in response to determining that the scan angle does not exceed the threshold orientation, provide a control signal to the light source to emit the light pulses at a second pulse rate different from the first pulse rate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 57.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4386
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15876669', '15845552', '15822677', '15713192', '15822679']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7616673422803593
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5324051759744486
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7387411256497682
- Mean Citation Score: 351.55537399999986
- Max Citation Score: 381.67172
- Similarity Product: 287.4757061644364

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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