PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15914783
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["315", "152000"]

Abstract:
A control panel or display device that includes a light source, a controller, an illuminated element, a light conductor, and a light sensor. The controller generates a control signal instructing the light source when to generate light. The light conductor conducts light generated by the light source to the illuminated element to illuminate it. The light conductor receives ambient light through the illuminated element when the light source is not generating light. The light sensor receives the ambient light from the light conductor, generates a sensor signal based on the received ambient light, and sends the sensor signal to the controller. The controller determines a brightness level based at least in part on the sensor signal and encodes the brightness level in the control signal. Brightness of the light generated by the light source is based at least in part on the brightness level encoded in the control signal.

Claim (Index 10):
A method comprising:\n generating, with a controller, a control signal with alternating on and off portions; sending, with the controller, the control signal to a light source configured to backlight a plurality of illuminated elements, the light source turning on and off in response to the alternating on and off portions of the control signal, one or more light conductors conducting light generated by the light source when the light source is on to the plurality of illuminated elements, the plurality of illuminated elements being illuminated by the conducted light, the one or more light conductors conducting ambient light to one or more light sensors, the ambient light having been received by the one or more light conductors from the plurality of illuminated elements when the light source is off; detecting the ambient light with the one or more light sensors; generating, with the one or more light sensors, one or more sensor signals based on the detected ambient light and sending the one or more sensor signals to the controller; determining, with the controller, a brightness level based at least in part on the one or more sensor signals; and encoding, with the controller, the brightness level in the control signal, brightness of the light generated by the light source being based at least in part on the brightness level encoded in the control signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.94545
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15081394', '11972199', '13187826', '13689461', '12476067']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.690656703833717
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4434916180700304
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6659401952573485
- Mean Citation Score: 135.97519300000002
- Max Citation Score: 148.66167
- Similarity Product: 132.18962496991216

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

Dataset: test