PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16028148
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["356", "004010"]

Abstract:
Embodiments describe a solid state electronic scanning LIDAR system that includes a scanning focal plane transmitting element and a scanning focal plane receiving element whose operations are synchronized so that the firing sequence of an emitter array in the transmitting element corresponds to a capturing sequence of a photosensor array in the receiving element. During operation, the emitter array can sequentially fire one or more light emitters into a scene and the reflected light can be received by a corresponding set of one or more photosensors through an aperture layer positioned in front of the photosensors. Each light emitter can correspond with an aperture in the aperture layer, and each aperture can correspond to a photosensor in the receiving element such that each light emitter corresponds with a specific photosensor in the receiving element.

Claim (Index 9):
A solid state optical system for performing distance measurements, the solid state optical system comprising:\n a light emission system comprising a bulk transmitter optic, and an illumination source comprising a two-dimensional array of light emitters arranged according to an illumination pattern and aligned to project discrete beams of light through the bulk transmitter optic into a field ahead of the optical system; a light detection system comprising a bulk receiver optic, an aperture layer including a plurality of apertures, and a photosensor layer including a two-dimensional array of photosensors configured to detect photons emitted from the illumination source and reflected from surfaces within the field after passing through the bulk receiver optic, wherein the aperture layer and the photosensor layer are arranged to form a plurality of sense channels arranged in a sensing pattern that corresponds to the illumination pattern and wherein each sense channel in the plurality of sense channels corresponds to an emitter in the array of emitters and includes an aperture from the aperture layer and a photosensor from the photosensor layer emitter array firing circuitry coupled to the two-dimensional array of light emitters and configured to activate only a subset of light emitters at a time; and sensor array readout circuity coupled to the two-dimensional array of photosensors and configured to synchronize the readout of individual photosensors within the array concurrently with the firing of corresponding light emitters so that each light emitter in the array of individual light emitters can be activated and each photosensor in the array of photosensors can be readout through one emission cycle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10606
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16028154', '15979235', '15861330', '16006331', '15934613']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6950277294668304
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6057698475275262
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6861019412729
- Mean Citation Score: 326.707492
- Max Citation Score: 543.43823
- Similarity Product: 494.5084293348039

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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