PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917628
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
A lidar system includes a transmitter that encodes successive transmit pulses with different pulse characteristics and a receiver that detects the pulse characteristics of each received (scattered or reflected) pulse and that distinguishes between the received pulses based on the detected pulse characteristics. The lidar system thus resolves range ambiguities by encoding pulses of scan positions in the same or different scan periods to have different pulse characteristics, such as different pulse widths or different pulse envelope shapes. The receiver includes a pulse decoder configured to detect the relevant pulse characteristics of the received pulse and a resolver that determines if the pulse characteristics of the received pulse matches the pulse characteristics of the current scan position or that of a previous scan position.

Claim (Index 19):
The system of  claim 18 , wherein the light detector element comprises an avalanche photodiode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03125
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15727073', '15710744', '15713192', '15843652', '15845552']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7516494146671722
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5274270595110607
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7292271791515611
- Mean Citation Score: 303.846478
- Max Citation Score: 348.37384
- Similarity Product: 231.7810934496784

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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