PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15963907
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["345", "169000"]

Abstract:
A user interface device having a user input component, a mechanical metamaterial region, one or more actuators, and a control unit is presented. The mechanical metamaterial region is located over the user input component. The one or more actuators are coupled to the mechanical metamaterial region, which has an internal structure that is mechanically alterable with the one or more actuators, and has a mechanical property that changes in response to the alteration of the internal structure by the one or more actuators. The control unit is in communication with the one or more actuators, and is configured to determine whether the user input component is to be hidden from tactile perception, and to activate the one or more actuators to mechanically alter the internal structure of the mechanical metamaterial region.

Claim (Index 13):
A handheld game controller, comprising:\n a plurality of user input components; a plurality of mechanical metamaterial regions located over the plurality of respective user input components; one or more actuators coupled to the plurality of mechanical metamaterial regions, wherein each mechanical metamaterial region of the plurality of mechanical metamaterial regions has a respective internal structure that is alterable by the one or more actuators, and has a respective mechanical property that changes in response to the alternation of the respective internal structure by the one or more actuators, and wherein the plurality of mechanical metamaterial regions are isolated from each other so that a mechanical property of one of the plurality of mechanical metamaterial regions can be changed without changing a mechanical property of any other of the mechanical metamaterial regions; a control unit in communication with the one or more actuators, and configured\n to determine that a user input component of the plurality of user input components is to be hidden from tactile perception, and \n to select, from among the plurality of mechanical metamaterial regions, a mechanical metamaterial region located over the user input component, \n to activate some or all of the one or more actuators to alter an internal structure of the mechanical metamaterial region that is selected in order to hide the user input component from tactile perception.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53571
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15583088', '15894012', '15350715', '12520224', '13034008']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5709130009268799
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5721611542953583
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5710378162637278
- Mean Citation Score: 219.30061
- Max Citation Score: 464.99112
- Similarity Product: 366.5947559001732

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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