PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15753794
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "049000"]

Abstract:
A method of operating a sensor system having at least one proximity sensor, with regard to generating a trigger signal indicative of an occurrence of an operator-intended event in the presence of noise. The method includes repetitive steps of: acquiring the sensor signal at specified sampling times, comparing a value obtained as a presently sampled sensor signal with a presently valid first threshold value, generating a trigger signal if the value obtained as the presently sampled sensor signal is as large as or exceeds the presently valid first threshold value, omitting to generate a trigger signal if the value obtained as the presently sampled sensor signal is less than or equal to the presently valid first threshold value, forming a subset out of the sampled sensor signals, determining an update value for the first threshold value, and replacing the presently valid first threshold value by the update value.

Claim (Index 10):
A control unit for generating a trigger signal for controlling activation of a motor-driven vehicle door member, the control unit comprising\n at least one processor unit and at least one digital data memory unit, wherein the at least one processor unit has data access to the at least one digital data memory unit, a sensor driving unit that is electrically connectable to at least one proximity sensor that is configured to generate a sensor signal indicative of a distance to an object, for providing a driving voltage to the at least one proximity sensor, a sensor signal evaluation unit that is connectable to the at least one proximity sensor and is configured for receiving the sensor signal as a signal input, and is configured for evaluating the received sensor signal by carrying out steps of the method as claimed in  claim 1 , and wherein the at least one processor unit is configured, upon and as long as receiving a trigger signal from the sensor signal evaluation unit, to carry out additional steps of detailed evaluation of the sensor signal for generating an output signal for at least initiating an activation of the motor-driven vehicle door member, based on predetermined sensor signal validation criteria.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35821
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13598534', '14042141', '15067699', '15177981', '10156619']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.409865814672036
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4694321311368853
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.415822446318521
- Mean Citation Score: 144.443514
- Max Citation Score: 152.73863
- Similarity Product: 107.49461992342592

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