PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15752778
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["348", "079000"]

Abstract:
A method for altering the intensity of light across the field of view of an image sensor in a microscope apparatus having a light source, an image sensor having pixels, and a specimen stage, wherein light from the light source travels along a light path to the specimen stage and then to the image sensor includes interposing a programmable spatial light modulator, pSLM, in the light path between the light source and the image sensor, the pSLM having a plurality of pixels; and modulating the intensity of light passing through one or more pixels of the plurality of pixels of the pSLM to produce an altered illumination landscape at the field of view of the image sensor that differs from an unaltered illumination landscape that would otherwise be produced at the image sensor. Vignetting can be specifically addressed.

Claim (Index 13):
The method of  claim 6 , wherein said step of modulating the intensity of light passing through the pSLM includes:\n identifying the maximum intensity of light in the reference illumination landscape, herein IT max ; and identifying the segment with the lowest intensity of the reference illumination landscape, herein S min , having an intensity IS min ; monitoring the intensity of S min  while increasing the power of the light source to a power level P 2  wherein the intensity of S min  is raised to IT max , separately reducing the intensity of light reaching the image sensor through the segments of the pSLM that are greater than IT max  at power level P 2 , by separately allowing each segment to transmit light while the remaining segments block at least a portion of light, and, for each such segment, incrementally increasing the absorption of the pSLM at a first incremental value until the segment exhibits and intensity of IT max  or below, wherein, if the intensity falls below IT max , the method further comprises incrementally decreasing the absorption of the pSLM at that segment at a second incremental value that is less than the first incremental value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29688
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13281287', '12832631', '13221031', '10702070', '13237170']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.618248337711914
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4841968911033992
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6048431930510625
- Mean Citation Score: 174.42155399999996
- Max Citation Score: 183.44543
- Similarity Product: 128.85909505411206

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