PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15752778
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["348", "079000"]

Abstract:
A method for altering the intensity of light across the field of view of an image sensor in a microscope apparatus having a light source, an image sensor having pixels, and a specimen stage, wherein light from the light source travels along a light path to the specimen stage and then to the image sensor includes interposing a programmable spatial light modulator, pSLM, in the light path between the light source and the image sensor, the pSLM having a plurality of pixels; and modulating the intensity of light passing through one or more pixels of the plurality of pixels of the pSLM to produce an altered illumination landscape at the field of view of the image sensor that differs from an unaltered illumination landscape that would otherwise be produced at the image sensor. Vignetting can be specifically addressed.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 4 , wherein, in said step of modulating the intensity of light, the processor controls the intensity of light passing through the one or more pixels of the pSLM by electrical signals to the one or more pixels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29688
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13281287', '12832631', '13221031', '10702070', '13237170']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6130235487319561
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5056334710026936
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6022845409590298
- Mean Citation Score: 174.42155399999996
- Max Citation Score: 183.44543
- Similarity Product: 101.99481609694064

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

Dataset: test