PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16028673
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["362", "514000"]

Abstract:
When forming a first light distribution pattern, the controller is configured to control the magnitudes of the drive currents of first light emitting element and the second light emitting element. When forming a second light distribution pattern, the controller is configured to control so that the magnitude of the drive current of the second light emitting element is smaller than when forming the first light distribution pattern and/or so that a time period in which the drive current is to be supplied to the second light emitting element is shorter than when forming the first light distribution pattern.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical unit comprising:\n a light source including a plurality of light emitting elements; and a rotating reflector configured to rotate about an axis of rotation while reflecting light emitted from the light source, wherein the rotating reflector has a reflective surface so as to form a light distribution pattern by scanning reflected light of the light source while the rotating reflector is rotating, the light source further includes a controller configured to control magnitudes of drive currents of a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element of the plurality of light emitting elements, (a) when forming a first light distribution pattern in which a first irradiation range to be irradiated by light emitted from the first light emitting element and a second irradiation range to be irradiated by light emitted from the second light emitting element overlap with each other, the controller is configured to control the magnitudes of the drive currents of first light emitting element and the second light emitting element, and (b) when forming a second light distribution pattern in which the first irradiation range and the second irradiation range overlap with each other and a maximum luminosity of the first irradiation range is higher than in the first light distribution pattern, the controller is configured to control so that the magnitude of the drive current of the second light emitting element is smaller than when forming the first light distribution pattern and/or so that a time period in which the drive current is to be supplied to the second light emitting element is shorter than when forming the first light distribution pattern.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68421
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13640035', '15975120', '14057172', '15711382', '14057129']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8441312114883965
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4736788297016053
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8070859733097175
- Mean Citation Score: 225.686616
- Max Citation Score: 240.05879
- Similarity Product: 206.6885151664281

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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