PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16190300
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["701", "028000"]

Abstract:
A system and method include scanning a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device through a range of orientations corresponding to a scanning zone while emitting light pulses from the LIDAR device. The method also includes receiving returning light pulses corresponding to the light pulses emitted from the LIDAR device and determining initial point cloud data based on time delays between emitting the light pulses and receiving the corresponding returning light pulses and the orientations of the LIDAR device. The initial point cloud data has an initial angular resolution. The method includes identifying, based on the initial point cloud data, a reflective feature in the scanning zone and determining an enhancement region and an enhanced angular resolution for a subsequent scan to provide a higher spatial resolution in at least a portion of subsequent point cloud data from the subsequent scan corresponding to the reflective feature.

Claim (Index 10):
The method of  claim 9 , wherein the information about the environment comprises a point cloud representation of at least a portion of the environment generated based on reflections of light pulses previously emitted by the LIDAR device using the first time interval between successive pulses.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39062
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15170470', '13627623', '13629378', '13649384', '14955186']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5163771763800653
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5675709919574436
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5214965579378031
- Mean Citation Score: 378.452048
- Max Citation Score: 471.33344000000005
- Similarity Product: 352.75621601062784

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

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