PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916936
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["715", "863000"]

Abstract:
A wall controller controls lighting in an area based upon a configurable user interface. The wall controller includes touch and gesture sensing electrodes mounted to a substrate, and an overlay mounted over the touch and gesture sensing electrodes. The overlay includes firmware to define lighting functions relative to a touch or motion gesture on the overlay. A processor is coupled to receive at least one of sensing signals based upon user touch inputs on the overlay, or sensing signals based upon user motion gestures near the overlay. Programming in a memory configures the processor to analyze the received sensing signals in accordance with the firmware of the overlay, generate a lighting control message based upon the analyzed sensing signals, and transmit the lighting control message to one or more luminaires in an area of the wall controller to control an output of the one or more luminaires.

Claim (Index 22):
A method for controlling lighting, comprising:\n receiving at least one of sensing signals, based upon user touch inputs at a location on an overlay mounted over touch sensing and gesture sensing electrodes of a wall controller and defined by firmware of the overlay, from a capacitive touch driver and sensing circuit or sensing signals, based upon user motion gestures of a type near the overlay and defined by the firmware of the overlay, wherein the firmware defines lighting functions relative to a touch or motion gestures on the overlay; analyzing the at least one sensing signals received from the capacitive touch driver and capacitive sensing circuit or the capacitive gesture driver and sensing circuit, wherein the analyzing comprises:\n ascertaining from which of the touch sensing electrodes or the gesture sensing electrodes the user input was sensed to generate the sensing signals, wherein the touch sensing electrodes and gesture sensing electrodes are mounted to a substrate of a wall controller configured for mounting in a standard electrical box through an opening in a structural architectural panel; and \n determining a lighting function of the sensed user input based upon a predetermined lighting profile configuration of the touch sensing and gesture sensing electrodes and the overlay; \n generating a lighting control message based upon the analyzed sensing signals; and \n transmitting the lighting control message to at least one of a plurality of luminaires in an area to control an output from a light source of the at least one of the plurality of luminaires.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 71.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47619
- Patent Class: 715.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15214944', '15436382', '15229149', '15618714', '15214962']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3203947418448447
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4692072231347496
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3352759899738352
- Mean Citation Score: 188.602184
- Max Citation Score: 199.96118
- Similarity Product: 157.81570554202676

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

Dataset: test