PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934725
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["463", "037000"]

Abstract:
Described herein are, among other things, handheld controllers having touch-sensitive controls, as well as methods for use of the touch-sensitive controls and methods for assembling the handheld controllers. An example handheld controller may include a top-surface control (e.g., a “trigger button”) that includes a switch, a pressure sensor, and a touch sensor for detecting a presence, location, and/or gesture of a finger on the top-surface control.

Claim (Index 1):
A handheld controller comprising:\n one or more processors; a housing having a front surface and a top surface; a front-surface control residing on the front surface of the housing and controllable by a thumb of a user of the handheld controller; and a top-surface control residing on the top surface of the housing and controllable by at least one of a middle finger or index finger of the user, the top-surface control comprising:\n a top cover; \n a touch sensor adjacent to the top cover and configured to provide, to the one or more processors, touch data indicative of a touch input based at least in part on contact between the at least one of the middle finger or the index finger and the top cover; \n a switch residing at least partly beneath the top cover and configured to provide, to the one or more processors, selection data indicative of a selection of the top-surface control based at least on a press of the top cover by the at least one of the middle finger or the index finger; and \n a pressure sensor coupled to the switch and configured to provide, to the one or more processors, force data indicative of an amount of force of the press of the top cover by the at least one of the middle finger or the index finger.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6
- Patent Class: 463.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14746076', '14124267', '14920592', '14975049', '13272776']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2845459592250139
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4446643048000724
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3005577937825198
- Mean Citation Score: 109.656764
- Max Citation Score: 114.498314
- Similarity Product: 82.31650561159205

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

Dataset: test