PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044052
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["315", "151000"]

Abstract:
A driver circuit for a semiconductor light source and to a method for controlling the brightness thereof are provided. When a pulse width modulated semiconductor light source reaches a duty cycle threshold value, the voltage is increased or decreased through a variable voltage source in order to achieve a higher dynamic range.

Claim (Index 2):
The driver circuit as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the variable voltage source comprises a variable resistor controlled by the controller.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.34146
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12324948', '11655308', '15139663', '14248290', '13105769']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7272594857546381
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4991457605802139
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7044481132371957
- Mean Citation Score: 204.467046
- Max Citation Score: 212.84055
- Similarity Product: 144.8480102495402

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test