PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16025084
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
A transform is used to transform raw sensor data from the time domain to the frequency or sequency domain. The transformed data falls into several signal bins. The transformed data in at least one of the signal bins is analyzed to determine whether a touch event or release event has occurred.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for operating a capacitive sensor, comprising:\n providing a sensor electrode; periodically exciting the sensor electrode and thereby periodically generating an electric field about the sensor electrode and a capacitance between the sensor electrode and a reference potential; periodically determining in the time domain values of capacitance between the sensor electrode and the reference potential; continuously transforming a rolling sample of the periodically-determined values of capacitance from the time domain to a plurality of data signals in the frequency domain using a Fourier Transform, each of the data signals in a corresponding frequency bin resulting from the Fourier Transform and each of the data signals comprising values related to capacitance for corresponding samples of the rolling sample; analyzing in the frequency domain at least one of the plurality of data signals in the corresponding frequency bin; and determining whether a touch event has occurred based on the analysis in the frequency domain of the at least one of the plurality of data signals in the corresponding frequency bin; wherein the rolling sample is an n-point rolling sample including a current sample and n\u22121 samples immediately preceding the current sample, wherein the n\u22121 samples include a last sample, wherein n=2 x  and x is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and wherein performance of the Fourier Transform yields n frequency bins numbered 0 through n\u22121.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.45946
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15431161', '14463298', '14831501', '14744310', '13887373']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7027073691143335
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6243543091426944
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6948720631171695
- Mean Citation Score: 428.02905
- Max Citation Score: 616.28766
- Similarity Product: 526.2830494640993

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