PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944498
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["315", "312000"]

Abstract:
A follow spot controller is provided that communicates with a lighting control desk and with a first automated luminaire. A physical orientation of the follow spot controller is sensed and used to replace pan and tilt control parameters received from the lighting control desk for the first luminaire. The modified control parameters are sent to the first luminaire. A three-dimensional model of a performance area and the locations and orientations of the first luminaire and additional automated luminaires relative to the performance area may be used to calculate individual pan and tilt parameters for the additional luminaires based on the first luminaire's replacement pan and tilt parameters.

Claim (Index 5):
A method of controlling a plurality of follow spots, comprising:\n creating a three-dimensional model comprising:\n one or more surfaces of a performance area; \n locations and mounting orientations for each of a plurality of automated luminaires, relative to the performance area; and \n location and mounting orientation for a camera, relative to the performance area; \n sensing a physical orientation of a follow spot controller; sending operator pan and tilt parameters calculated from the sensed physical orientation to a first automated luminaire of the plurality of luminaires; calculating a vector representing a center of a light beam projected by the first automated luminaire, based on the operator pan and tilt parameters and the location and mounting orientation of the first automated luminaire; calculating a target point on a surface of the performance area based on the vector; calculating individual pan and tilt parameters for each of the remainder of the plurality of automated luminaires based on the luminaire target point; and sending the individual pan and tilt parameters to each associated automated luminaire.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11321
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15944487', '15335206', '15335043', '15582952', '15583145']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6737584381645535
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5593759056798737
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6623201849160856
- Mean Citation Score: 267.06437400000004
- Max Citation Score: 442.9882
- Similarity Product: 344.67130169936416

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