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 21):
A handheld controller comprising:\n one or more processors; a housing having a top surface; and a top-surface control residing on the top surface of the housing and controllable by at least one finger of a user operating the handheld controller, 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 finger and the top cover; and \n a pressure sensor 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 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): 0.284853037683356
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4433130648357885
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3006990403985993
- Mean Citation Score: 109.656764
- Max Citation Score: 114.498314
- Similarity Product: 83.09998693792345

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