PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16229980
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["345", "690000"]

Abstract:
In an apparatus for modulating light, a spatial light modulator includes a plurality of pixels and configured to modulate input light in response to a drive voltage for each of the pixels. An input value setting unit is configured to set an input value for the each of pixels. The input value is a digital value, an entire gray level of the digital value is “N”, and “N” is a natural number. A converting unit is configured to convert the input value to a control value. A control value is a digital value, an entire gray level of the control value is “M”, and “M” is a natural number greater than “N”. A driving unit is configured to convert the control value to a voltage value and drive the each of the pixels in response to the drive voltage corresponding to the voltage value.

Claim (Index 6):
A method of modulating light, the method comprising:\n by a spatial light modulator including a plurality of pixels, modulating input light in response to a drive voltage for each of the pixels; setting an input value for the each of the pixels, wherein the input value is a digital value having one of a total of N different input levels, and \u201cN\u201d is a natural number; converting the input value to a control value, wherein the control value corresponds to a voltage value, and is a digital value having one of a total of M different levels, \u201cM\u201d being a natural number greater than \u201cN\u201d; and inputting the control value to a driving unit so as to allow the driving unit to convert the control value to a voltage value and allow the driving unit to drive each of the pixels with the drive voltage corresponding to the voltage value, the voltage value being one of the total of M different levels, wherein a working voltage range is set within an operating voltage range, the working voltage range being a range from a minimum value Q to a maximum value R, and linearity is allocated for the working voltage range for which the total of M different levels is set.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.23529
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14885718', '11889181', '12746183', '14045513', '13985083']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6697290406766794
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5735298259837208
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6601091192073836
- Mean Citation Score: 391.619236
- Max Citation Score: 481.74973
- Similarity Product: 374.29878443497535

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

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