PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15973717
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["345", "173000"]

Abstract:
A touch-sensitive apparatus comprises a panel configured to conduct signals from a plurality of peripheral incoupling points to a plurality of peripheral outcoupling points. Actual detection lines are defined between pairs of incoupling and outcoupling points to extend across a surface portion of the panel. The signals may be in the form of light, and objects touching the surface portion may affect the light via frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR). A signal generator is coupled to the incoupling points to generate the signals, and a signal detector is coupled to the outcoupling points to generate an output signal. A data processor operates on the output signal to enable identification of touching objects. The output signal is processed ( 40 ) to generate a set of data samples, which are indicative of detected energy for at least a subset of the actual detection lines. The set of data samples is processed ( 42 ) to generate a set of matched samples, which are indicative of estimated detected energy for fictitious detection lines that have a location on the surface portion that matches a standard geometry for tomographic reconstruction. The set of matched samples is processed ( 44, 46 ) by tomographic reconstruction to generate data indicative of a distribution of an energy-related parameter within at least part of the surface portion.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of enabling touch determination based on an output signal from a touch-sensitive apparatus, the touch-sensitive apparatus comprising a panel configured to conduct signals from a plurality of peripheral incoupling points to a plurality of peripheral outcoupling points, thereby defining actual detection lines that extend across a surface portion of the panel between pairs of incoupling and outcoupling points, at least one signal generator coupled to the incoupling points to generate the signals, and at least one signal detector coupled to the outcoupling points to generate the output signal, the method comprising:\n processing the output signal to generate a set of data samples, wherein the data samples are indicative of detected energy for at least a subset of the actual detection lines, processing the set of data samples to generate a set of matched samples, wherein the matched samples are indicative of estimated detected energy for fictitious detection lines that have a location on the surface portion that matches a standard geometry for tomographic reconstruction, and processing the set of matched samples by tomographic reconstruction to generate data indicative of a distribution of an energy-related parameter within at least part of the surface portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44792
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13695505', '14293257', '15388457', '14783732', '14383988']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7165319013762531
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5563413635261498
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7005128475912428
- Mean Citation Score: 362.32301400000006
- Max Citation Score: 409.46936
- Similarity Product: 401.8274621876145

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