PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16064388
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["315", "158000"]

Abstract:
There is described a method for controlling a light intensity of a given light source in a light network comprising other light sources. The method comprises providing a detector having a field of view (FOV) and operably connected to the given light source for controlling a light intensity of the given light source. The method further comprises using the detector to detect if there is a change, according to a first pattern, in a light intensity of at least one of the other light sources, thereby detecting that a neighbor became a master. In response to detecting such a change, the light intensity of the given light source is changed according to a second pattern, thereby becoming a slave. The detector can also detect if there is a movement in the FOV, in which case light intensity of the given light source is changed according to the first pattern, thereby becoming a master.

Claim (Index 14):
A system for controlling a network of light sources, the system comprising:\n a plurality of apparatuses, each one of the apparatuses being installed on a corresponding one of the light sources and being to control a light intensity of the corresponding one of the light sources in accordance with a first pattern and a second pattern, wherein each one of the light sources has a field of illumination (FOI); and each one of the apparatuses has a field of view (FOV) substantially covering the FOI of the corresponding one of the light sources and covering at least in part the FOI of at least another one of the light sources; each one of the apparatuses comprising:\n a first detector adapted to detect a movement inside its FOV; \n a second detector adapted to detect a change according to the first pattern in the FOI of the at least another one of the light sources; \n a controller operably connected to the first detector, to the second detector, and to the corresponding one of the light sources, the controller being adapted to:\n upon detecting a movement in the FOV, change the light intensity of the corresponding one of the light sources according to the first pattern; and \n upon detecting a change, according to the first pattern, in the light intensity of the at least another one of the light sources, change the light intensity of the corresponding one of the light sources according to a second pattern.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60938
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15452845', '15408597', '13357549', '13105497', '15855532']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6987567126358907
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4606915998662043
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.674950201358922
- Mean Citation Score: 143.40335599999997
- Max Citation Score: 158.74153
- Similarity Product: 128.03139556818485

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