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 1):
A solid state optical system comprising:\n a light transmission module including a transmitter layer that includes an array of individual light emitters; a light sensing module including a sensor layer that includes an array of photosensors, wherein each light emitter in the array of light emitters is paired with a corresponding photosensor in the light sensing module; emitter array firing circuitry coupled to the 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 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): 0.6997856827927145
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5921729525151225
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6890244097649553
- Mean Citation Score: 326.707492
- Max Citation Score: 543.43823
- Similarity Product: 436.7940694211602

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