PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15946270
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "230100"]

Abstract:
An imaging device includes: a light source that applies light at a timing according to a light emission control signal; a light receiver that performs exposure to reflected light from an object at different timings according to an exposure control signal, and outputs exposure signals generated as a result of the exposure; a calculator that calculates a distance to the object; and a controller that outputs the light emission control signal and the exposure control signal for any of: modulating a length of a light emission period and an exposure period by increasing or decreasing the number of pulses of each of the light emission control signal and the exposure control signal; and modulating a repetition sequence of the light emission period and the exposure period while maintaining a phase relationship between the light emission control signal and the exposure control signal, randomly or in conformity with a specific rule.

Claim (Index 8):
The imaging device according to  claim 5 ,\n wherein the ratio between the light emission state and the non-light emission state and the ratio between the exposure state and the non-exposure state are modulated by skipping a pulse period of at least one cycle for each of a light emission pulse and an exposure pulse randomly or in conformity with the specific rule, the light emission pulse being the light emission control signal, and the exposure pulse being the exposure control signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.40909
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15882493', '15045851', '14965901', '15883938', '14973002']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6607797417437954
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5053609152045186
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6452378590898677
- Mean Citation Score: 234.414176
- Max Citation Score: 245.56366
- Similarity Product: 159.35472687537907

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