PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16028148
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["356", "004010"]

Abstract:
Embodiments describe a solid state electronic scanning LIDAR system that includes a scanning focal plane transmitting element and a scanning focal plane receiving element whose operations are synchronized so that the firing sequence of an emitter array in the transmitting element corresponds to a capturing sequence of a photosensor array in the receiving element. During operation, the emitter array can sequentially fire one or more light emitters into a scene and the reflected light can be received by a corresponding set of one or more photosensors through an aperture layer positioned in front of the photosensors. Each light emitter can correspond with an aperture in the aperture layer, and each aperture can correspond to a photosensor in the receiving element such that each light emitter corresponds with a specific photosensor in the receiving element.

Claim (Index 18):
A solid state optical system for performing distance measurements, the solid state optical system comprising:\n a light emission system comprising a bulk transmitter optic, an illumination source including a two-dimensional array of light emitters aligned to project discrete beams of light through the bulk transmitter optic into a field external to the optical system according to an illumination pattern in which each discrete beam in the illumination pattern represents a non-overlapping field-of-view within the field; a light detection system configured to detect photons emitted from the illumination source and reflected from surfaces within the field, the light detection system comprising a bulk receiver optic, an aperture layer including a plurality of apertures, and a photosensor layer including a two-dimensional array of photosensors, wherein the aperture layer and the photosensor layer are arranged to form a plurality of sense channels having a sensing pattern in the field that substantially matches, in size and geometry across a range of distances from the system, the illumination pattern of the array of light emitters, and wherein each sense channel in the plurality of sense channels corresponds to an emitter in the array of emitters and includes an aperture from the aperture layer and a photosensor from the photosensor layer; emitter array firing circuitry coupled to the array of light emitters and configured to execute a plurality of image capture periods where, for each image capture period the emitter array firing circuitry sequentially fires subsets of emitters within the array of light emitters according to a firing sequence until the illumination pattern is generated; and sensor array readout circuity coupled to the array of photosensors and configured to synchronize the readout of individual photosensors within the array concurrently with the firing of corresponding emitters within the array of light emitters.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10606
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16028154', '15979235', '15861330', '16006331', '15934613']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6941143495978835
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6083483552276102
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6855377501608563
- Mean Citation Score: 326.707492
- Max Citation Score: 543.43823
- Similarity Product: 505.52916421848647

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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