PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756290
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["356", "300000"]

Abstract:
An imaging laser range finder including an objective lens having an optical axis, an object side, and an image side, a controllable pixelated light modulator disposed along the optical axis on the image side of the lens, and a detector disposed optically downstream from the pixelated light modulator on the image side of the lens. The controllable pixelated light modulator is advantageously a MEMS-based system such as a digital mirror device (DMD). An increased field of view may be obtained by incorporating a pair of opposing surface reflectors between an imaging lens and the controllable pixelated light modulator. Associated methods are disclosed.

Claim (Index 14):
An optical scanning method, comprising:\n providing a controllable pixelated light modulator having a plurality of individual pixel elements and a lateral dimension that determines a direct object side scanning field; providing a pair of reflective surfaces disposed in opposed tangential planes on opposite sides of the optical axis between the objective lens and the pixelated light modulator and tilted in a sagittal plane; imaging light from one or more points in the object side scanning field onto the pixelated light modulator by reflection from the pair of reflective surfaces, the shape, position and dimensions of which establish an indirect scanning field; and selectively controlling any of a plurality of selected arrangements of the pixel elements so as to map one or more points in the direct scanning field and the indirect scanning field to a single point in an image side a detection field.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80645
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14955186', '15396476', '13790251', '11021393', '15856637']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7006999475126131
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4729829630895971
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6779282490703116
- Mean Citation Score: 176.762484
- Max Citation Score: 182.81526
- Similarity Product: 137.28704433155178

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

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