PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15984245
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["710", "073000"]

Abstract:
Logic of a handheld controller can implement sensor fusion algorithms based on force data provided by a force sensing resistor (FSR) in combination with touch data or proximity data provided by a touch sensor or an array of proximity sensors, respectively. An example sensor fusion algorithm can be used to re-calibrate the FSR when an object contacts an associated control, as detected by the touch sensor. Another example sensor fusion algorithm can be used to ignore spurious inputs detected by the FSR when an object is in contact with an adjacent control. Another example sensor fusion algorithm can be used to detect a hand size of a hand grasping a handle of the controller, as detected by the array of proximity sensors, and to adjust the threshold force to register a FSR input event at the FSR according to the hand size.

Claim (Index 7):
A handheld controller comprising:\n one or more processors; a controller body including a first control and a second control adjacent to the first control, the first control and the second control configured to be pressed; a force sensing resistor (FSR) associated with the first control and configured to provide, to the one or more processors, force data indicative of an amount of force of a press of the first control; a touch sensor associated with the second control and configured to provide, to the one or more processors, touch data indicative an object contacting the second control; and logic configured to:\n determine, based at least in part on the force data provided by the FSR, a resistance value measured by the FSR; \n convert the resistance value to a digitized FSR input value; \n determine that the digitized FSR input value meets or exceeds a threshold value that is to be met in order to register a FSR input event for the first control; \n determine, based at least in part on the touch data provided by the touch sensor at a time at which the FSR resistance value is measured by the FSR, that the object is in contact with the second control; and \n refrain from registering the FSR input event for the first control based at least in part on determining that the object is in contact with the second control.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23529
- Patent Class: 710.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15834372', '15834425', '14038307', '11986873', '15150769']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6511951003096231
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4777315331863644
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6338487435972973
- Mean Citation Score: 144.635294
- Max Citation Score: 159.26344
- Similarity Product: 106.39892043146612

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