PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16134000
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for combining return signals from multiple channels of a LIDAR measurement system are described herein. In one aspect, the outputs of multiple receive channels are electrically coupled before input to a single channel of an analog to digital converter. In another aspect, a DC offset voltage is provided at the output of each transimpedance amplifier of each receive channel to improve measured signal quality. In another aspect, a bias voltage supplied to each photodetector of each receive channel is adjusted based on measured temperature to save power and improve measurement consistency. In another aspect, a bias voltage supplied to each illumination source of each transmit channel is adjusted based on measured temperature. In another aspect, a multiplexer is employed to multiplex multiple sets of output signals of corresponding sets of receive channels before analog to digital conversion.

Claim (Index 9):
The LIDAR measurement system of  claim 1 , the first plurality of LIDAR measurement channels each further comprising:\n a transimpedance amplifier having an input node coupled to an output of the photodetector and an output node.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12676
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15974527', '15941302', '15926095', '15610975', '15339790']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7238846758191017
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4961931031032413
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7011155185475155
- Mean Citation Score: 260.760878
- Max Citation Score: 277.3596
- Similarity Product: 228.7977450047493

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

Dataset: test