PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15874705
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["324", "684000"]

Abstract:
Apparatuses and methods of distinguishing between a finger and stylus proximate to a touch surface are described. One apparatus includes a first circuit to obtain capacitance measurements of sense elements when a conductive object is proximate to a touch surface. The apparatus also includes a second circuit coupled to the first circuit. The second circuit is operable to detect whether the conductive object activates the first sense element, second sense element, or both, in view of the capacitance measurements. To distinguish between a stylus and a finger as the conductive object, the second circuit determines the conductive object as being the stylus when the second sense element is activated and the first sense element is not activated and determines the conductive object as being the finger when the first sense element and the second sense element are activated.

Claim (Index 37):
A method comprising:\n measuring a first capacitance of a first electrode and a second capacitance of a second electrode; measuring an additional capacitance of the second electrode responsive to the second electrode in proximity to a conductive object and the first electrode is not in proximity to the conductive object; and distinguishing between a first type of conductive object and a second type of conductive object responsive to the one or more of the first electrode and the second electrode in proximity to the conductive object, wherein the first and second electrodes in proximity to the conductive object is determined based on the first capacitance and the second capacitance, wherein the conductive object is the first type when the second electrode is in proximity to the conductive object and the first electrode is not in proximity to the conductive object, and wherein the conductive object is the second type when the first electrode and the second electrode are both in proximity to the conductive object.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82692
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15660754', '14468630', '14224854', '14520536', '14293762']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5892212012957264
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4965110223029139
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5799501833964451
- Mean Citation Score: 258.649804
- Max Citation Score: 297.70224
- Similarity Product: 259.9395421757412

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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