PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756290
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["356", "300000"]

Abstract:
An imaging laser range finder including an objective lens having an optical axis, an object side, and an image side, a controllable pixelated light modulator disposed along the optical axis on the image side of the lens, and a detector disposed optically downstream from the pixelated light modulator on the image side of the lens. The controllable pixelated light modulator is advantageously a MEMS-based system such as a digital mirror device (DMD). An increased field of view may be obtained by incorporating a pair of opposing surface reflectors between an imaging lens and the controllable pixelated light modulator. Associated methods are disclosed.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical scanning device, comprising:\n an objective lens having an optical axis; a controllable pixelated light modulator having a plurality of individual pixel elements and a lateral dimension, disposed along the optical axis on an image side of the objective lens, wherein a direct field of view of the optical scanning device is set by said lateral dimension; a pair of reflective surfaces disposed in opposed tangential planes on opposite sides of the optical axis between the objective lens and the pixelated light modulator and tilted with respect to a sagittal plane, such that a wide angle point on an object side of the objective lens is mapped to a respective pixel of the pixelated light modulator; a controller coupled to the pixelated light modulator in a manner to selectively control any of a plurality of selected arrangements of the pixel elements so as to map the point on the object side of the objective lens to a single point on an image side of the objective lens; and a detector disposed so as to produce a signal representative of the intensity of light emitted from one or more points in front of the objective lens as the controller selectively controls the pixelated light modulator.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80645
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14955186', '15396476', '13790251', '11021393', '15856637']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7012928222547865
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4702472336166651
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6781882633909744
- Mean Citation Score: 176.762484
- Max Citation Score: 182.81526
- Similarity Product: 140.70238867456194

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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