PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164549
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["385", "008000"]

Abstract:
Systems, devices, and methods for optical waveguides that are well-suited for use in wearable heads-up displays (WHUDs) are described. An optical device comprises an optical waveguide including a volume of optically transparent material, an in-coupler, an out-coupler, a volume of liquid crystal carried by the volume of optically transparent material, and a controller to modulate a refractive index of the volume of liquid crystal. Light is in-coupled into the waveguide and is propagated along a length of the waveguide by total internal. As the light crosses a thickness of the waveguide the light passes through or within the volume of liquid crystal and is refracted according to the modulated refractive index of the volume of liquid crystal. In this way, light signals can be steered to create an image and/or to move an exit pupil of an image. WHUDs that employ such optical waveguides are also described.

Claim (Index 7):
The optical device of  claim 1  further comprising a processor communicatively coupled to the controller to modulate the output of signals from the controller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16127972', '16128084', '15946565', '15946569', '16057429']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8252808817846069
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5465995794029272
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.797412751546439
- Mean Citation Score: 299.156252
- Max Citation Score: 403.2957
- Similarity Product: 395.5817143594265

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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