PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15580256
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["362", "513000"]

Abstract:
A headlight for vehicles, said headlight comprising at least one light source ( 1 ) together with a focusing optical unit ( 6 ), a micromirror array ( 7 ), and an imaging optical unit ( 9 ), wherein a central computing unit ( 4 ) comprising a light source control ( 3 ) and an array control ( 12 ) is associated with the light source and with the micromirror array, and the central computing unit is configured to switch the position of the micromirrors between an OFF state and an ON state periodically with a predefined control frequency and a predefined duty cycle by means of the array control, and the formed light ray ( 2 ) from the at least one light source is directed at the micromirror array, and the light beam structured and reflected thereby is projected onto the road ( 11 ) as a light pattern ( 10 ) via the imaging optical unit ( 9 ), wherein the computing unit ( 4 ) is configured to suppress the focused light ray ( 2 ) directed at the micromirror array ( 7 ) at predefinable times and synchronously with the control frequency of the micromirror array by means of the light source control ( 3 ) and/or the array control ( 12 ).

Claim (Index 5):
The headlight according to  claim 1 , characterised in that, in order to generate a structured light pattern with different illuminances, the computing unit ( 4 ) is configured to phase-shift the ON states of micromirrors by certain times t 1  . . . t 4  and to suppress the light ray directed at the array synchronously with the control frequency of the micromirrors of the OFF states by means of the light source control ( 3 ) and/or the array control ( 12 ), wherein, depending on the phase shift, at least one temporal region of the ON states falls within the suppression period.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.85
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10230756', '10914038', '10857519', '10856174', '10857514']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8643606438937476
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4837550095008898
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8263000804544618
- Mean Citation Score: 212.012094
- Max Citation Score: 217.27954
- Similarity Product: 163.09170206846713

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

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