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 1):
A method of operating a sensor system, the sensor system comprising at least one sensor that generates a sensor signal indicative of a sensed physical quantity, with regard to generating a trigger signal indicative of an occurrence of an event in the presence of noise, the method comprising repetitive steps of\n 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 the presently valid first threshold value, forming a subset out of the sampled sensor signals, wherein a predetermined number of consecutively acquired sensor signals immediately preceding the presently sampled sensor signal is excluded from forming the subset, based on the formed subset of sampled sensor signals, determining an update value for the first threshold value, and replacing the presently valid first threshold value by the update value for the first threshold value as a new presently valid first threshold value.

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): 0.4067942785154261
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4813135842403629
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4142462090879197
- Mean Citation Score: 144.443514
- Max Citation Score: 152.73863
- Similarity Product: 96.8104549714154

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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