PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917066
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["345", "158000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for processing an input are disclosed that detect a portion of a hand and/or other detectable object in a region of space monitored by a 3D sensor. The method further includes determining a zone corresponding to the region of space in which the portion of the hand or other detectable object was detected. Also, the method can include determining from the zone a correct way to interpret inputs made by a position, shape or a motion of the portion of the hand or other detectable object.

Claim (Index 19):
A machine-implemented method to process an input, including:\n detecting a portion of a hand or other detectable object in a 3D sensor space; determining a zone corresponding to the 3D sensor space in which the portion of the hand or other detectable object was detected, by: capturing an image using an imaging analysis system; analyzing the captured image to detect one or more edges of the object based on changes in at least one image parameter including brightness, by:\n comparing brightness of at least two pixels to a threshold; and \n detecting a transition in brightness from a low level to a high level across adjacent pixels; and \n determining position and/or motion of the object based upon the one or more edges, by selecting a zone to test for presence of the object;\n determining whether the object is within the selected zone; and \n adding the zone to a set of zones in which the object can be found when the object is determined to be within the selected zone; and \n determining from the zone a correct way to interpret inputs made by a position or a motion of the portion of the hand or other detectable object, by:\n interpreting a position or a motion as a command input to an active program when determined to be corresponding to a command input zone; and \n interpreting a position or a motion as a content input to an active program when determined to be corresponding to a content input zone; and \n interpreting a position or a motion as a modifier input modifying a concurrent input to an active program when determined to be corresponding to a modifier input zone; and \n interpreting a position or a motion as being ready to make an input to an active program when determined to be corresponding to a hover zone.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.77358
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14262691', '15638205', '14156429', '15358104', '15696084']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6528447542867948
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5107863125620022
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6386389101143156
- Mean Citation Score: 188.412876
- Max Citation Score: 286.5052
- Similarity Product: 208.2447770855427

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