PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16286437
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["356", "445000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments are directed to an imaging apparatus, which in an embodiment includes a light source to provide light, optics, a translation mechanism and a detector. The optics include focusing optics to perform focusing of the light onto a non-flat focal surface and to direct the light toward a three dimensional object. The translation mechanism adjusts a location of at least one lens of the focusing optics to displace the non-flat focal surface. The detector measures intensities of returning light that is reflected off of the three dimensional object, wherein the intensities of the returning light are measured for a plurality of locations of the at least one lens for determination of positions of a plurality of points of the three dimensional object. Detected positions of one or more of the plurality of points are adjusted to compensate for the non-flat focal surface.

Claim (Index 11):
An imaging apparatus for performing intraoral scans, comprising:\n a light source to provide light; optics comprising a plurality of lenses disposed along an optical path of the light, wherein the optics comprises focusing optics to perform focusing of the light onto a focal surface and to direct the light toward a three dimensional object to be imaged in an oral cavity, and wherein the optics are characterized by an absence of a field lens; a translation mechanism to adjust a location of at least one lens of the plurality of lenses to displace the focal surface along an imaging axis defined by the optical path, wherein the at least one lens is a lens of the focusing optics; and a detector to measure intensities of returning light that is reflected off of the three dimensional object and directed back through the focusing optics, wherein the intensities of the returning light are to be measured for a plurality of locations of the at least one lens for determination of positions on the imaging axis of a plurality of points of the three dimensional object, wherein detected positions of one or more of the plurality of points are to be adjusted to compensate for the absence of the field lens.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 80.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35938
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14825173', '15610515', '12739589', '12706277', '14741172']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6860418820552967
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5008793139971333
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6675256252494804
- Mean Citation Score: 220.653794
- Max Citation Score: 298.31766
- Similarity Product: 265.4223780407095

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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