PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896680
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
A distance camera includes at least one photo element, a trigger generator activating the photo element during a temporal integration gate, a light source illuminating an object with light pulses having a predetermined temporal intensity profile with a duration T p , and an intensity sensor determining the intensity I p  of the light pulses arriving on the photo element. The integration gate has a predetermined delay to the light pulse emission start point in order to capture the light pulses back reflected from the object. The photo element outputs a signal value U at an integration end point in time T 1e  and in accordance with an intensity I p  and a duration of the light pulse arriving on the photo element during its activation.

Claim (Index 1):
A device for determining a distance value (R abs ) between an object and the device within a distance range, comprising:\n at least one photo element, a trigger generator for activating the photo element during a temporal integration gate, a light source for illuminating the object with light pulses having a temporal intensity profile with a duration (T p ), an intensity sensor for determining an intensity (I p ) of the light pulses arriving on the photo element, wherein the integration gate has a predetermined delay to the light pulse emission start point in time in order to capture the light pulses back reflected from the object, wherein the photo element is adapted to output a signal value (U) at the integration end point in time T 1e  with the signal value U depending on the intensity I p  and the duration of the light pulse arriving on the photo element during the time the photo element is activated, a memory unit for storing predetermined parameters related to explicit light-pulse-intensity dependent correction value function \u0394=f(I p ) for the photo element, and an evaluation unit for determining a raw distance value (R raw ) from the signal value U and the light-pulse-intensity I p  and combining the raw distance value R raw  and a correction value \u0394(I p ) taken the from light-pulse-intensity-dependent correction value function \u0394=f(I p ) for obtaining the distance value R abs .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01538
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14704090', '15611749', '15599110', '15154639', '11785134']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7060612587122487
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5544080230463836
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6908959351456622
- Mean Citation Score: 270.923354
- Max Citation Score: 420.94412
- Similarity Product: 404.5001372448588

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

Dataset: test