PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15909012
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
To detect an atmospheric condition at the current location of a lidar system, a receiver in the lidar system detects a return light pulse scattered by a target and analyzes the characteristics of the return light pulse. The characteristics of the return light pulse include a rise time, a fall time, a duration, a peak power, an amount of energy, etc. When the rise time, fall time, and/or duration exceed respective thresholds, the lidar system detects the atmospheric condition such as fog, sleet, snow, rain, dust, smog, exhaust, or insects. In response to detecting the atmospheric condition, the lidar system adjusts the characteristics of subsequent pulses to compensate for attenuation or distortion of return light pulses due to the atmospheric condition. For example, the lidar system adjusts the peak power, pulse energy, pulse duration, inter-pulse-train spacing, number of pulses, or any other suitable characteristic.

Claim (Index 11):
A lidar system comprising:\n a light source configured to emit light pulses; a scanner configured to scan a field of regard of the lidar system including direct the light pulses at different angles toward different points within the field of regard; a detector configured to detect light from some of the light pulses scattered by one or more remote targets to identify return light pulses and to generate respective pixels; and a controller configured to adjust one or more characteristics of the light pulses emitted by the light source, including:\n determine an atmospheric condition at or near a geolocation of a vehicle; and \n cause the light source to emit subsequent light pulses having one or more adjusted characteristics to compensate for attenuation or distortion of the return light pulses associated with the atmospheric condition.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29333
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15824416', '15845552', '15876662', '15861147', '15822677']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7407662418185817
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4937251593526492
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7160621335719886
- Mean Citation Score: 279.674954
- Max Citation Score: 297.73886
- Similarity Product: 286.35520251825216

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

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