PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917961
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["349", "025000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a photodetector includes a sensor unit including at least one photosensor, a liquid crystal element including a first substrate includes a plurality of first control electrodes, a second substrate including a second control electrode, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate, a liquid crystal controller which controls a voltage to be applied to the liquid crystal layer for forming a first lens that is opposed to the photosensor in the liquid crystal layer, and a sensor controller which controls the sensor unit.

Claim (Index 9):
The photodetector of  claim 5 , wherein:\n the modulation element comprises a third substrate comprising a plurality of fifth control electrodes, a fourth substrate comprising a sixth control electrode, and a second liquid crystal layer held between the third substrate and the fourth substrate; and the modulation controller controls a voltage to be applied to the second liquid crystal layer for forming the modulation portion between the fifth control electrode and the sixth control electrode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.27273
- Patent Class: 349.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15873025', '11615402', '14004174', '12515186', '11730257']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8247817730408084
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.468304397432594
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.789134035479987
- Mean Citation Score: 168.10153400000004
- Max Citation Score: 177.36723
- Similarity Product: 137.3883866304982

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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