PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16398139
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
Embodiments are directed toward measuring a three dimensional range to a target. A transmitter emits light toward the target. An aperture may receive light reflections from the target. The aperture may direct the reflections toward a sensor that comprises rows of pixels that have columns. The sensor is offset a predetermined distance from the transmitter. Anticipated arrival times of the reflections on the sensor are based on the departure times and the predetermined offset distance. A portion of the pixels are sequentially activated based on the anticipated arrival times. The target's three dimensional range measurement is based on the reflections detected by the portion of the pixels.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for measuring a three-dimensional range to a target, wherein one or more processors execute instructions that perform actions of the method, comprising:\n employing a transmitter to transmit light toward the target and a receiver to detect one or more reflections of the transmitted light, wherein the receiver is physically offset separate from the transmitter; determining one or more anticipated arrival times of the one or more reflections based on one or more departure times of the transmitted light and a length of the physical offset; energizing separately different portions of a plurality of pixels for the receiver based on the one or more anticipated arrival times; and employing the different portions of energized pixels to detect an amount of photons from the one or more reflections of the transmitted light, wherein a disparity determined between the amount of photons and a threshold value are used to provide a three-dimensional measurement of the range of the target.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23077
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15694532', '15384227', '16261528', '15194502', '15098285']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6982251386424387
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5035840253238115
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.678761027310576
- Mean Citation Score: 211.356158
- Max Citation Score: 283.4745
- Similarity Product: 242.7035788216889

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

Dataset: test