PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15991636
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["315", "082000"]

Abstract:
A lighting circuit is configured to drive a light source including a plurality of light emitting elements connected in series. The lighting circuit includes a plurality of bypass switches respectively connected in parallel to the light emitting elements, a switching converter, and a converter controller configured to (i) stabilize a lamp current generated by the switching converter to a first target amount in a lighting-on state where at least one of the plurality of light emitting elements is turned on, and to (ii) stabilize the lamp current to a second target amount smaller than the first target amount in a complete lighting-off state where all of the plurality of light emitting elements are turned off.

Claim (Index 2):
The lighting circuit according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the converter controller includes:\n a first controller configured to generate a first control pulse by a control method with a relatively high precision in the lighting-on state; \n a second controller configured to generate a second control pulse by a control method with a relatively low precision in the complete lighting-off state; and \n a driver circuit configured to drive the switching converter according to the first control pulse and the second control pulse.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10169
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15686520', '14874005', '15662095', '14657476', '15888027']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7313450932636704
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4842842305006517
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7066390069873685
- Mean Citation Score: 202.673154
- Max Citation Score: 213.81378
- Similarity Product: 168.9287574344802

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

Dataset: test