PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15562503
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["345", "173000"]

Abstract:
A touchpad ( 34 ) includes a plurality of first electrical conductors ( 24 ) and a plurality of second electrical conductors ( 28 ) that are disposed, in a plan view of the conductors ( 24, 28 ), in a crossing manner with the first conductors ( 24 ). A contact layer is disposed over the conductors ( 24, 28 ). When an object contacts the contact layer, a signal can be picked up from the conductors ( 24, 28 ), and the location of the contact on the contact layer can be determined from the signal. The contact layer includes a decorative layer ( 30 ) that forms a visually and/or haptically detectable decoration or on which a visually and/or haptically detectable decoration is applied. The decoration or the decorative layer and/or the electrical conductors ( 24, 28 ) is/are formed using an electronically-controllable droplet printing method.

Claim (Index 6):
A system for detecting the position and/or the type of at least one object contacting a detecting surface, as well as for generating and outputting object-specific information, including:\n a detecting unit having a touchpad, comprising:\n a plurality of first electrical conductors, \n a plurality of second electrical conductors and disposed, in a plan view of the electrical conductors, in a crossing manner with the first electrical conductors, \n a contact layer disposed over the first and second electrical conductors, the contact layer having a decorative layer defining a visually and/or haptically detectable decoration or having a visual and/or haptically detectable decoration applied thereto, and \n the detecting surface located on a topside of the decorative layer, the touchpad being configured such that, when the detecting surface is contacted by the at least one object, a signal can be detected at one or more crossing first and second conductors proximal to the at least one object, \n an evaluating unit configured to receive the signal from the conductors and generate object data associated with the at least one object contacting the detecting surface, a transmitter unit configured to transmit the object data, a control unit comprising:\n a receiver unit configured to receive the object data, \n a computer configured to generate evaluation data, as a function of the object data, in accordance with a program stored in the control unit, and \n an output unit configured to output information derived from the evaluation data, \n wherein at least one of (i) the plurality of first electrical conductors and the plurality of second electrical conductors and (ii) the decorative layer is formed by an electronically-controllable droplet printing method; and wherein the object data contains: a detected characteristic of at least one electrically-conductive layer or of a plurality of electrically-conductive surface area portions disposed on the at least one object, the detected characteristic being one or more of thickness, shape, size and charge doping, a detected position on the touchpad of the at least one object, and/or a detected pattern formed by the plurality of electrically-conductive surface area portions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 52.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53125
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12195687', '11489922', '13690524', '11812668', '10500440']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6101363666495655
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.453382363632287
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5944609663478377
- Mean Citation Score: 110.0865452
- Max Citation Score: 112.889015
- Similarity Product: 85.00191154836506

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