PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16040263
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
A method in a lidar system for scanning a field of regard of the lidar system is provided. The method includes identifying, within the field of regard, a ground portion that overlaps a region of ground located ahead of the lidar system; causing a light source to emit pulses of light; scanning at least a portion of the emitted pulses of light along a scan pattern contained within the field of regard, including adjusting a scan parameter so that at least one of a resolution or a pulse energy for the ground portion of the field of regard is modified relative to another portion of the field of regard; and detecting at least a portion of the scanned pulses of light scattered by one or more remote targets.

Claim (Index 37):
The lidar system of  claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:\n determine an expected distance from the lidar system to the ground portion along a path of an instantaneous field of view of the light source; and wherein the processor is configured to adjust the pulse energy for the ground portion of the field of regard by adjusting the pulse energy in view of the expected distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22951
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15954427', '15822679', '15941677', '15915902', '15876669']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.779197416512641
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.526325398104741
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.753910214671851
- Mean Citation Score: 348.89885400000014
- Max Citation Score: 353.08633
- Similarity Product: 278.9005787699395

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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