PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886864
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
In a capacitive touch sensor device, to avoid floating touches causing signal inversion in mutual capacitance measurements, a segmented conductive layer of conductive material is embedded in the touch panel. The segmented conductive layer comprises a plurality of segments of the conductive material which are separated by gaps. The segmented conductive layer effectively pre-loads the mutual capacitance of the touch sensor to the same or similar level of that of a floating touch of the maximum size for which it is desired to avoid signal inversion.

Claim (Index 16):
The device of  claim 1 , wherein:\n the X electrodes comprise zeroth order branches extending in the x direction; the Y electrodes comprise zeroth order branches extending in the y direction, such that it is the zeroth order branches of the X and Y electrodes which cross each other, and such that the zeroth order branches of any two adjacent X electrodes and any two adjacent Y electrodes enclose a sub-area; and the X and Y electrodes each further comprising higher order branches of order n, each of which is confined to the sub-area into which it buds, where order n is a positive integer and where an nth order branch buds from an (n\u22121)th order branch, so that, away from edges of the node array, each node is associated with four sub-areas, and wherein, in each sub-area, at least some of the higher order X electrode branches have portions which co-extend with at least some of the higher order Y branches, where the co-extending X and Y portions are separated by a gap suitable for making a mutual capacitance measurement of a touching object impinging on the touch surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85714
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15886863', '15886862', '15596156', '13453923', '15386612']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6361553974475285
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5435377296183117
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6268936306646068
- Mean Citation Score: 285.876738
- Max Citation Score: 383.00894
- Similarity Product: 361.04315670699

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