PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16179314
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["356", "620000"]

Abstract:
A tracker includes a retro-follow mode that causes a beam of light from the tracker to follow a retroreflector while locked onto the retroreflector with the beam of light turned on or, alternatively, using target cameras with the beam of light turned off.

Claim (Index 19):
A three-dimensional (3D) measuring system comprising:\n a tracker including a source of light, a position detector, one or more target cameras, and a tracking system, the source of light operable to emit a beam of light along an optical axis of the tracker, the position detector operable to produce an electrical signal based at least in part on a position of light on a surface of the position detector, the position detector having a retrace point, the tracking system operable being to steer the optical axis; a processor coupled to the tracker, the processor operable to execute computer instructions that, when executed on the processor includes: determining whether the tracker is in a retro-follow mode; for the tracker in the retro-follow mode: determining whether the beam of light emitted on the optical axis of the tracker is detected by the position detector; when the beam of light is detected by the position detector, tracking on a retroreflector with the tracking system by moving the beam of light to arrive at the retrace point; and when the beam of light is not detected by the position detector, turning off the beam of light, identifying the retroreflector in first images of the one or more target cameras, steering the optical axis toward the retroreflector until a retroreflector acquisition criterion has been satisfied by the first images, and thereafter turning on the beam of light.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53333
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14531113', '15856717', '13803479', '15055699', '13851221']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7389245026354102
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4965334257412151
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7146853949459908
- Mean Citation Score: 281.9960020000001
- Max Citation Score: 286.1085
- Similarity Product: 241.8429671686292

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

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