PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15950190
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["345", "173000"]

Abstract:
A touch pad includes a flat portion and a convex type three-dimensional portion having a hemispherical shape. An outer circumferential surface of the three-dimensional portion constitutes a spherical operation area. A second recognition unit of the touch-pad controller recognizes a gesture operation of at least two fingers to be the same gesture operation as a pinch-in operation in a planar operation area, in a case where movement trajectories of the at least two fingers in the spherical operation area are arc-shaped movement trajectories which are bulged outwardly in a case where the spherical operation area is viewed in a plan view.

Claim (Index 18):
An operation method of the touch type operation device according to  claim 1  which includes the touch sensor that includes the spherical operation area as the operation area in which a user performs the gesture operation by bringing the finger into contact and detects the contact of the finger with the spherical operation area so as to output the detection signal, the operation method comprising:\n a first recognition step of recognizing the contact position of the finger with the spherical operation area and a movement trajectory of the finger in the spherical operation area, based on the detection signal of the touch sensor; and \n a second recognition step of recognizing the gesture operation performed on the spherical operation area based on the contact position and the movement trajectory recognized in the first recognition step, and of recognizing the gesture operation of the at least two fingers to be the same gesture operation as the pinch-in operation in which movement trajectories of the at least two fingers are straight lines in a case where the operation area is planar, in a case where the movement trajectories of the at least two fingers recognized in the first recognition step are the arc-shaped movement trajectories which are bulged outwardly in a case where the spherical operation area is viewed in a plan view and which correspond to the contact positions of the at least two fingers.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84211
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14825153', '14156424', '14156420', '14554602', '13521886']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6135535208455689
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4896620000264124
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6011643687636533
- Mean Citation Score: 208.58901
- Max Citation Score: 211.85498
- Similarity Product: 159.31574766751532

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

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