PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15749088
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["315", "155000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a touch panel device for a dimmer lighting control system, the device comprising a touch sensitive surface capable of detecting a touch input; a light sensor that detects ambient light levels within a sensing area adjacent to the device; a processing means operatively connected to the touch sensitive surface and the light sensor for generating control signals based on detection of the touch input on the touch sensitive surface and/or ambient light levels wherein, in use, the total light output of a light circuit can be controlled manually with the touch panel device and/or controlled autonomously by the level of ambient light in the sensing area.

Claim (Index 34):
A touch dimmer control method as defined  claim 26 , wherein the step of detecting an ambient light level executes an if, then/else operation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9661
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11471914', '12199179', '11472239', '11472245', '12897240']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7274971368749433
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4759448574707376
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7023419089345229
- Mean Citation Score: 184.278958
- Max Citation Score: 191.85458
- Similarity Product: 152.93271898988007

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

Dataset: test