PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16027116
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["318", "161000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods of creating handwheel systems that provide haptic feedback to human operators such that handwheels have a simulated rotational inertia that is greater than their actual rotational inertial. A motor is coupled with a handwheel, and a rotation detector monitors the angular position of the handwheel. A controller creates a closed-loop control system by receiving information from the rotation detector and using that information to control the motor. Various control systems are contemplated: a 2-state system that monitors angular position and angular velocity of a handwheel, and a 4-state system that monitors angular position and angular velocity of a handwheel as well as angular position and angular velocity of a virtual mass and then drives a motor to try to make the actual values match the virtual values.

Claim (Index 15):
A digital handwheel system to control camera movements comprising:\n a motor having a rotor; a handwheel coupled with the rotor such that a rotation of the handwheel causes the rotor to turn; a rotation detector configured to detect a rotation of the handwheel; and a controller electrically coupled with both the rotation detector and with the motor, configured to operate a control system for the motor that uses the detected rotation of the handwheel to generate a simulated rotational inertia of the handwheel that is greater than the handwheel's actual rotational inertia such that the controller causes the handwheel to continue to turn according to the simulated rotational inertia upon applying the rotation to the handwheel; and a remotely-located motor configured to receive a signal from the controller to cause the remotely-located motor to rotate according to the rotation of the handwheel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07576
- Patent Class: 318.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13926643', '14667855', '14516274', '13606809', '15595038']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6063563957449368
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4867111908023553
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5943918752506787
- Mean Citation Score: 159.66499800000005
- Max Citation Score: 171.03548999999995
- Similarity Product: 118.22313872072336

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

Dataset: test