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 1):
A control device comprising:\n a backlighting circuit including a first light source, a second light source, and a third light source; a first button having a first indicia configured to be illuminated by the first light source; a second button having a second indicia configured to be illuminated by the second light source; a third button having a third indicia configured to be illuminated by the third light source; and a control circuit responsive to actuations of the first, second, and third buttons, and electrically coupled to the first, second, and third light sources of the backlighting circuit, the control circuit configured to:\n control the first light source to emit light at a first source illumination intensity to illuminate the first indicia on the first button; \n control the second light source to emit light at a second source illumination intensity to illuminate the second indicia on the second button; and \n control the third light source to emit light at a third source illumination intensity to illuminate the third indicia on the third button; \n wherein the first button is located between the second and third buttons, and the first indicia on the first button is located closer to the second button than the third button; and wherein the control circuit is configured to set 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, the control circuit further configured to set 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.

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): 0.7877288425795181
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.575725003985345
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7665284587201008
- Mean Citation Score: 438.85608600000006
- Max Citation Score: 475.4939
- Similarity Product: 443.6563981115281

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