PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16244556
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["315", "151000"]

Abstract:
A control device may have a plurality of buttons that may be backlit to multiple levels, such as first, second, and third adjacent buttons positioned in order, and first, second, and third LEDs positioned to illuminate a respective button. The control device may be configured to illuminate the first LED to a first LED illumination intensity to illuminate the respective button to a first surface illumination intensity; illuminate the third LED to a second LED illumination intensity to illuminate the respective button to a second surface illumination intensity; and illuminate the second LED to a third LED illumination intensity to illuminate the respective button to the second surface illumination intensity. The third LED illumination intensity may be less than the second LED illumination intensity, which may be less than the first LED illumination intensity, and the second surface illumination intensity may be less than the first surface illumination intensity.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of backlighting buttons of a control device, the control device comprising first, second, and third buttons, and first, second, and third light sources positioned to illuminate a respective one of the first, second, and third buttons, the method comprising:\n controlling the first light source to emit light at a first source illumination intensity to illuminate first indicia on the first button; controlling the second light source to emit light at a second source illumination intensity to illuminate second indicia on the second button; controlling the third light source to emit light at a third source illumination intensity to illuminate third indicia on the third button; setting both of the second and third source illumination intensities to be less than the first source illumination intensity so that the first indicia on the first button is illuminated to a brighter intensity than the respective indicia on the second and third buttons; and setting the second source illumination intensity to be less than the third source illumination intensity so that the second and third buttons are illuminated to the same intensity, the first indicia on the first button being located closer to the second button than the third button.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 43.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.85714
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15952869', '14850315', '15680516', '15165579', '15857058']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7884326430780649
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5734189062511353
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7669312693953719
- Mean Citation Score: 438.85608600000006
- Max Citation Score: 475.4939
- Similarity Product: 429.7203294559001

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

Dataset: test