PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934138
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["356", "006000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an optical range finder that includes a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) and a photodiode emulation circuitry for testing the TIA. The photodiode emulation circuitry may be coupled to an input port of the TIA and configured to receive one or more parameters specifying one or more characteristics of a test current signal to be provided to the TIA. The photodiode emulation circuitry may further be configured to provide the test current signal in accordance with the one or more parameters to the input port of the TIA while the photodiode is also coupled to the input port of the TIA.

Claim (Index 18):
The optical range finder according to  claim 17 , wherein the photodiode emulation circuitry includes:\n a reference current generator configured to generate a reference current, a digitally controlled oscillator configured to generate a first voltage signal as a periodic signal comprising a plurality of pulses, where the one or more characteristics include a pulse period and the digitally controlled oscillator is configured to ensure that a pulse period of the first voltage signal is in accordance with the pulse period specified by the one or more parameters, a digitally controlled pulse generator configured to generate a second voltage signal based on the first voltage signal, where the one or more characteristics include a pulse width and the digitally controlled oscillator is configured to ensure that a pulse width of the second voltage signal is in accordance with the pulse width specified by the one or more parameters, a digitally controlled rise/fall time generator configured to generate a third voltage signal based on the second voltage signal and on the reference current, where the one or more characteristics include a rise time and a fall time of the plurality of pulses and the digitally controlled rise/fall time generator is configured to ensure that a rise time and a fall time of the third voltage signal is in accordance with the rise time and the fall time specified by the one or more parameters, and a current generator configured to generate the test current signal based on the third voltage signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.15686
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15698491', '10284223', '15087711', '13888334', '11386950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6678579231816842
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4515135916925834
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6462234900327742
- Mean Citation Score: 129.805201
- Max Citation Score: 146.41104
- Similarity Product: 119.65953828672409

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