PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934968
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "138000"]

Abstract:
The methods and systems disclosed herein improve upon previous 3D imaging techniques by making use of a longer illumination pulse to obtain the same or nearly the same range resolution as can be achieved by using a much shorter, conventional laser pulse. For example, a longer illumination pulse can be produced by one or more Q-switched lasers that produce, for example, 5, 10, 20 ns or longer pulses. In some instances, the laser pulse can be longer than the modulation waveform of a MIS-type imaging system and still produce a repeatable response function. The light pulse generation technologies required to achieve longer pulse lengths can be significantly less expensive and less complex than known technologies presently used to generate shorter illumination pulse lengths. Lower-cost, lower-complexity light pulse sources may facilitate lower-cost, commercial 3D camera products.

Claim (Index 10):
The three-dimensional imaging system of  claim 8 , wherein the range is calculated using a lookup table of values relating the convolved signal to the range or time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.67416
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14696793', '14685326', '13925303', '15147854', '14347324']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6543525068114715
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5619358972402104
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6451108458543454
- Mean Citation Score: 277.167116
- Max Citation Score: 439.6464
- Similarity Product: 385.0860853694916

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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