PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966280
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["482", "007000"]

Abstract:
A treadmill safety control system, method, and apparatus are described for operating an exercise treadmill by enabling a treadmill motor to start moving the treadmill belt after an initial height of the user on the treadmill belt is measured, and then continually measuring a current height of the user on the treadmill belt for evaluation against the initial height so that a first treadmill motor control signal is generated to stop the treadmill motor from moving the treadmill belt when the current height is lower than the initial height by a minimum height threshold.

Claim (Index 20):
A treadmill fall detection system, comprising:\n a treadmill comprising a treadmill motor driving a treadmill belt; one or more sensors connected to the treadmill for making height measurements of a treadmill user, where the one or more sensors are selected from a group consisting of an RGB camera sensor, a laser rangefinder device, and a depth camera sensor; one or more light current sensor devices connected to the treadmill for generating a field sensor plane which extends above and below a rear portion of the treadmill belt; and a processor that executes control instructions to generate one or more treadmill motor control signals for decelerating and stopping the treadmill motor by:\n calculating the height measurements of the treadmill user based on sensor data provided by the one or more sensors and to evaluate an initial height measurement of the treadmill user against one or more subsequent height measurements of the treadmill user taken during operation of the exercise treadmill by the treadmill user to generate a first treadmill motor control signal for stopping the treadmill motor if a subsequent height measurement drops a predetermined distance from the initial height measurement; and \n monitoring sensor data provided by the one or more light current sensor devices to generate a second treadmill motor control signal for stopping the treadmill motor upon detecting any object penetration of the field sensor plane.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92157
- Patent Class: 482.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['09455959', '15445995', '14805197', '10420990', '11125779']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6784838917069888
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4698023449595337
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6576157370322432
- Mean Citation Score: 211.333796
- Max Citation Score: 220.12187000000003
- Similarity Product: 167.9762909567976

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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