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 17):
The method of  claim 6 , further comprising an alignment step prior to said step of assessing a reference illumination landscape, said alignment step being selected from:\n a. an active area defining step comprising:\n i. successively activating each pixel of the pSLM to transmit light while all other pixels block at least a portion of light, \n ii. capturing an image with the image sensor for each successively activated pixel, and \n iii. associating each pixel of the pSLM with those pixels of the image sensor that are affected by their activation; and \n b. a center alignment step comprising:\n i. activating a plurality of pixels encompassing the center of the pSLM \n ii. capturing an image with the image sensor for the activated plurality of pixels of step b.i. \n iii. comparing the affected area of the image sensor per step b.ii. with the center of the image sensor, and, if the affected area is not centered on the image sensor, \n iv. moving the pSLM in a centering direction; and \n c. a pixel alignment step comprising:\n i. rotating the pSLM so that x and y directions of the pSLM pixels are respectively aligned with x and y directions of the image sensor; and \n d. combinations thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29688
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13281287', '12832631', '13221031', '10702070', '13237170']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5869451409003434
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4934365814014794
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5775942849504571
- Mean Citation Score: 174.42155399999996
- Max Citation Score: 183.44543
- Similarity Product: 114.39783963482616

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