PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15895641
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
In one general aspect, a method can include identifying contact with a surface of a touch-sensitive input device, identifying a location of the contact on the surface of the touch-sensitive input device, and calculating a change in a mutual capacitance between a first electrode and a second electrode included in a sensor module disposed below the surface of the touch-sensitive input device. The first electrode can be adjacent to the second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode can be located approximate to the identified location of the contact on the surface of the touch-sensitive input device. The method can include estimating a contact-coupled capacitance based on the calculated change in a mutual capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode, and calculating a force applied to the surface of the touch-sensitive input device at the identified location.

Claim (Index 7):
A computing device comprising:\n at least one controller; and a touch-sensitive input device configured to facilitate interaction by a user with a graphical user interface (GUI), the touch-sensitive input device comprising:\n a glass-plus-sensor module including:\n a cover glass including a top surface and a bottom surface; and \n at least two electrodes attached to the bottom surface of the cover glass, the at least two electrodes having an associated self-capacitance; \n \n a display device having a top surface and a bottom surface, the computing device being configured to render the GUI on the display device; \n an optically clear adhesive (OCA) layer attaching the bottom surface of the cover glass to the top surface of the display device; and \n a ground plane attached to the bottom surface of the display device, \n wherein the at least one controller and the touch-sensitive input device are collectively configured to:\n detect contact of a conductive element with the top surface of the cover glass, and based on the detected contact; \n determine, for each of the at least two electrodes, a self-capacitance associated with the electrode; and \n calculate a force applied by the contact of the conductive element with the top surface of the cover glass based on the determined self-capacitance associated with each of the at least two electrodes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 45.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.96
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15058584', '14817786', '15658366', '15886862', '15222688']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6283083793729543
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5205769893143763
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6175352403670965
- Mean Citation Score: 218.443812
- Max Citation Score: 327.01288
- Similarity Product: 253.6123662224913

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

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