PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15958434
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "186000"]

Abstract:
A time-of-flight (TOF) sensor includes a light source, a plurality of avalanche photodiodes, and a plurality of pulse generators. Control circuitry is coupled to the light source, the plurality of avalanche photodiodes, and the plurality of pulse generators, and the control circuitry includes logic that when executed by the control circuitry causes the time-of-flight sensor to perform operations. The operations include emitting the light from the light source, and receiving the light reflected from an object with the plurality of avalanche photodiodes. A plurality of pulses is output from the individual pulse generators corresponding to the individual avalanche photodiodes that received the light, and a timing signal is output when the plurality of pulses overlap temporally. A time is calculated when a first avalanche photodiode in the plurality of avalanche photodiodes received the light.

Claim (Index 10):
The TOE sensor of  claim 9 , wherein the control circuitry includes:\n a first D flip-flop; a second D flip-flop coupled to the first D flip-flop to receive a lock signal from the first D flip-Flop, and wherein the second D flip-flop is coupled to the first TDC; a third lip-flop; and a fourth D flip-flop coupled to the third D flip-flop to receive a lock signal from the third D flip-flop, and wherein the fourth D flip-flop is coupled to the second TDC.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59649
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15333653', '15945623', '14680906', '15798067', '14721424']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9116971037552216
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5159129687025454
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8721186902499539
- Mean Citation Score: 229.717244
- Max Citation Score: 253.75586
- Similarity Product: 163.92562707678556

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

Dataset: test