PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16023077
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["348", "139000"]

Abstract:
An imaging system may include an image sensor, a lens, and layers with reflective properties, such as an infrared cut-off filter, between the lens and the image sensor. The lens may focus light from an object in a scene onto the image sensor. Some of the light directed onto the image sensor may form a first image on the image sensor. Other portions of the light directed onto the image sensor may reflect off of the image sensor and back towards the layers with reflective properties. These layers may reflect the light back onto the image sensor, forming a second image that is shifted relative to the first image. Depth mapping circuitry may compare the first and second images to determine the distance between the imaging system and the object in the scene.

Claim (Index 1):
An imaging system comprising:\n a lens; an image sensor comprising an array of pixels that generate image data; an at least partially reflective intermediate layer interposed between the lens and the image sensor; an infrared cut-off filter interposed between the intermediate layer and the lens, wherein light from an object passes through the lens, the infrared cut-off filter, and the intermediate layer to reach the image sensor, wherein a first portion of the light is captured by the array of pixels to generate a primary image, and wherein a second portion of the light reflects off of the image sensor towards the intermediate layer, reflects off of the intermediate layer back toward the image sensor, and is captured by the array of pixels to generate a secondary image that is different than the primary image; and depth mapping circuitry that detects the primary image and the secondary image and that compares the primary image to the secondary image to determine a distance between the imaging system and the object.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 39.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44068
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13870387', '11638036', '14092611', '14180237', '13854834']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6045632817372731
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4617051397199351
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5902774675355394
- Mean Citation Score: 159.80019
- Max Citation Score: 172.92764
- Similarity Product: 141.03533693219663

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

Dataset: test