PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876662
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
To compensate for the uneven distribution of data points around the periphery of a vehicle in a lidar system, a light source transmits light pulses at a variable pulse rate according to the orientation of the light pulses with respect to the lidar system. A controller may communicate with a scanner in the lidar system that provides the orientations of the light pulses to the controller. The controller may then provide a control signal to the light source adjusting the pulse rate based on the orientations of the light pulses. For example, the pulse rate may be slower near the front of the lidar system and faster near the periphery. In another example, the pulse rate may be faster near the front of the lidar system and slower near the periphery.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of controlling a pulse rate in a lidar system, the method comprising:\n emitting light pulses by a light source in the lidar system; scanning, by a scanner in the lidar system, a field of view of the light source across a field of regard of the lidar system, including directing the light pulses at different angles relative to a front-facing direction with respect to the lidar system toward different points within the field of regard, including:\n when the scanner is directing light pulses at a first scan angle relative to the front-facing direction, causing the light source to emit the light pulses at a first pulse rate, and \n when the scanner is directing light pulses at a second scan angle relative to the front-facing direction, causing the light source to emit the light pulses at a second pulse rate different from the first pulse rate; and \n detecting, by a receiver of the lidar system, light from some of the light pulses scattered by one or more remote targets to generate respective pixels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 57.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4386
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15876669', '15845552', '15822677', '15713192', '15822679']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7603300442328037
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5335346684058048
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7376505066501039
- Mean Citation Score: 351.55537399999986
- Max Citation Score: 381.67172
- Similarity Product: 344.5756492437387

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

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