PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860013
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["345", "157000"]

Abstract:
A pointing device includes a casing, a tactile sense presentation section, and a sensor section. The sensor section detects an operation for the casing and outputs an operation signal for controlling a movement of a pointer on a screen. The control apparatus includes an area setting section and a signal generation section. The area setting section sets a first area that belongs to an inside of a display area of an object on the screen, a second area that belongs to an outside of the display area of the object, and a third area that belongs to a boundary portion between the first area and the second area. The signal generation section calculates a position of the pointer based on the operation signal to generate, when the pointer is located in the first area, a control signal by which the tactile sense presentation section is driven in a first drive mode and generates, when the pointer is located in the third area, a control signal by which the tactile sense presentation section is driven in a second drive mode.

Claim (Index 1):
A pointing system, comprising:\n a pointing device, wherein the pointing device is a spatial operation type input apparatus, the pointing device including:\n a casing, \n a tactile sense presentation section including a plurality of vibrating bodies, each of which is configured to generate a vibration in an arbitrary axis direction by being individually driven, wherein the tactile sense presentation section is configured to present a tactile sense having tactile characteristics to the casing, and \n a sensor section configured to detect an operation for the casing and output an operation signal for controlling a movement of a pointer on a screen; and \n at least one processor programmed to:\n set a first area that belongs to an inside of a display area of an object on the screen, a second area that belongs to an outside of the display area of the object, and a third area that belongs to a boundary portion between the first area and the second area; \n calculate a position of the pointer on the screen based on the operation signal; \n generate, in response to determining that the pointer has entered the first area, a first control signal by which the tactile sense presentation section is driven in a first drive mode; \n generate, when the pointer is located in the third area, a second control signal by which the tactile sense presentation section is driven in a second drive mode, wherein the tactile characteristics of a first tactile sense presented by the tactile sense presentation section to the casing when driven in the first drive mode are different than the tactile characteristics of a second tactile sense presented by the tactile sense presentation section to the casing when driven in the second drive mode; \n determine that the pointer is moving toward the object by an operation of the casing; and \n generate, in response to determining that the pointer is moving toward the object, a third control signal by which the tactile sense presentation section is driven toward a moving direction of the casing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.14754
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14118590', '13498363', '12522086', '15128161', '14273131']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5744131975442847
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5048704080957755
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5674589185994338
- Mean Citation Score: 172.33301999999995
- Max Citation Score: 299.4359
- Similarity Product: 297.4714672973752

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

Dataset: test