PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16186541
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["348", "138000"]

Abstract:
An imaging system with a light source controls the sensitivity of pixels to light, by performing both superpixel modulation and curtain modulation. The superpixel modulation may facilitate rapid data acquisition. The curtain modulation may suppress the effect of ambient light. In superpixel modulation, each pixel set may be modulated by a separate superpixel modulation signal that causes sensitivity of the pixel set to light to vary over time, and each superpixel may include a pixel from each pixel set. The curtain modulation may cause pixels in only a small region of the photodetector to be sensitive to light. The curtain modulation may cause the small region to move to track the dot of light, by changing which pixels are in the region. This invention may be used for 3D scanning.

Claim (Index 16):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein:\n (a) the method includes a light source emitting the light in a collimated state; and (b) while the first region is located at each respective position in the set of positions, the curtain modulation signals cause the first region to overlap one or more Hero Regions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16923
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15449099', '15871444', '15115270', '13645952', '15431713']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6211677227454951
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6501764221587881
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6240685926868245
- Mean Citation Score: 366.411662
- Max Citation Score: 640.5881
- Similarity Product: 574.556523982209

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