PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15879688
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["315", "186000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus comprises regulating, by a modulator of a LED controller, a plurality of current sinks to operate in a linear region of a current-to-voltage curve which is associated with a constant value of resistance, wherein each current sink is coupled to each of a plurality of LED strings, receiving, by the modulator, information of first current flowing through each of a plurality of LED strings, processing, by a control logic coupled to the modulator, the information of the first current, and based on the processed information of the first current, providing, by the control logic, at least two choices of information of second current that is to be flown through each respective LED string.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 14 , wherein:\n the transistor includes a first transistor and a second transistor, the first transistor includes a first dropout voltage above the predetermined threshold, and the second transistor includes a second dropout voltage higher than the first dropout voltage; and the regulation signal includes a first regulation signal to be received by the first transistor and a second regulation signal to be received by the second transistor, the first regulation signal controls the first transistor to conduct a first PWM current having a first duty cycle shorter than the duty cycle of the PWM current and a first amplitude higher than the amplitude of the PWM current, and the second regulation signal controls the second transistor to conduct a second PWM current having a second duty cycle shorter than the first duty cycle and a second amplitude higher than the first amplitude.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22034
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13347621', '13346625', '15656892', '14987203', '13339196']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7281078679359761
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4882077758617745
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7041178587285559
- Mean Citation Score: 190.408296
- Max Citation Score: 193.6233
- Similarity Product: 137.91666529952292

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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