PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15760972
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["340", "012240"]

Abstract:
A system controls assistive technologies with an assistive tool for users with movement and/or communication disorders. The system includes an electronic communication interface, a biometric sensor, a calibration module and a processing unit. The interface presents users with stimuli associated with commands and/or information that the user might select. The sensor detects the user's biometric activity and generates a biometric electrical signal. During initial calibration, the calibration module records signal characteristics associated with a biometric electrical signal detected with voluntary biometric activity. The processing unit recognizes, based on the biometric electrical signal and the signal characteristics, the user's voluntary biometric activity and commands and/or information the user wants to select. The processing unit provides control signals to the interface and the assistive tool, based on the user's selection preferences. The interface presents stimuli based on the presentation control signal, if present, or presents a scan of stimuli.

Claim (Index 27):
A system for controlling assistive technologies, provided with at least one assistive tool, for users suffering from movement and/or communication disorders, the system comprising:\n an electronic communication interface, configured to present a user with a plurality of sensory stimuli, each of the stimuli associated with a command and/or a piece of information that the user may want to select and/or to provide; at least one biometric sensor, suitable to be applied to the user to detect at least one biometric activity of the user and to generate a respective biometric electrical signal representative of the biometric activity detected; a calibration module, configured to record, in an initial system calibration step, wherein the user's biometric activity is a voluntary biometric activity conventionally considered as indicative of the user's will to respectively select a command and/or a piece of information, one or more signal characteristics, associated with the biometric electrical signal detected in presence of said at least one voluntary biometric activity; a processing unit, configured to recognize, based on a comparison between the biometric electrical signal detected and the one or more signal characteristics recorded, the voluntary biometric activity of the user and the related command and/or piece of information the user wants to select, upon a sensory stimulus perceived; the processing unit being configured to provide control signals to the electronic communication interface and to the assistive tool, based on recognition of the user's will to select, wherein the control signals comprise: at least one signal for controlling presentation of sensory stimuli, suitable to manage said presentation based on the user's will; at least one command signal to the assistive tool, based on a command and/or a piece of information, among the command and/or a piece of information presented to the user, selected by the user and recognized by the processing unit; the electronic communication interface being configured to present the sensory stimuli based on the at least one presentation control signal, if present, and to present an automatic and predefined sequence of sensory stimuli, in absence of the presentation control signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51515
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14356071', '14936668', '15134706', '10012012', '14752148']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6529622613950423
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4578379190564432
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6334498271611824
- Mean Citation Score: 106.721477
- Max Citation Score: 114.85021
- Similarity Product: 88.61241935961426

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

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